The official Marine Engineering Flowchart
I love it!!
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I had a copy of that on my bulkhead when I was sailing. More useful than one might think. . .
Something else I have learned. What broke? And what was the last thing you touched?
Way back when I ran a Marine Electrical Company, the First Question I would ask is what really happened and what we you doing when the problem happened. I never threw anyone under the bus when they told me that maybe they were washing down just before to switchboard blew up. But if I spent several hours searching for a problem before finding that someone had poured water on a live switchboard I would be pissed and let the CE know. Usually this would only happen once and just about all of the crews knew that I was there to help not hurt them.
I also had this posted in my ER Control Booth. I swear one of the AE’s that I had used every excuse known to man rather than just manning up and admitting that he screwed up.
I keep a copy of that troubleshooting guide on the back of the door to the maint office. Just cheers me up when particularly vapid emails come from town. I did find this one though which perfectly described what happened during a 3 year “conversion” in “do-wrong” (Jurong) shipyard Singapore.
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I once overheard a chief say to a third “You look to short to have played basketball kid so I’m going to tell you the rules… It doesn’t matter who caused the ball to go out of bounds, all that matters is who touched it last”
Perhaps just a re-statement of “who touched it last” but once when I was about to extend the reach of our department and take on some repair we should have left to the “owner” of the equipment the 1AE reminded me “it’s a dogs world…you pee on it and you own it”.
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I also had this posted in my ER Control Booth. I swear one of the AE’s that I had used every excuse known to man rather than just manning up and admitting that he screwed up.[/QUOTE]
Man I hate that. Just own up and tell me what you did so we can fix it. Instead we are troubleshooting our asses off and could save a lot time knowing what happened.
The 10 Commandments Of Marine Engineers
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
The only reward for good work is more work
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Keep your boss’s boss off your boss’s back.
To screw up is human, to screw up in front of a Deckie is criminal
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.
Don’t be irreplaceable, if you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are really good, you will get out of it.
A new third engineer arrives in the engine room and is briefed by the 1st who tells him that most of the guys are stone deaf and have given up trying to scream out to each other. he then told him that if he wanted help with something he would have to think of hand signal.
The 3rd gets to work and quickly realizes he needs a handsaw so he waves at the 1st engineer and tries to use signs. He points to his eye, meaning, “I”, then at his knee, meaning, “need”, then he moves his hand back and forth, meaning, “handsaw”.
The 1st nods, then drops his pants and begins to masturbate.
The 3rd freaks out and runs down to the first yelling, '‘What the hell is wrong with you!?! Are you stupid or something? I was saying that I needed a handsaw!’'
The 1st looks at him and says, ‘‘I knew that. I was just trying to tell you that I was coming.’’
[QUOTE=albertpachino;111840]A new third engineer arrives in the engine room and is briefed by the 1st who tells him that most of the guys are stone deaf and have given up trying to scream out to each other. he then told him that if he wanted help with something he would have to think of hand signal.
The 3rd gets to work and quickly realizes he needs a handsaw so he waves at the 1st engineer and tries to use signs. He points to his eye, meaning, “I”, then at his knee, meaning, “need”, then he moves his hand back and forth, meaning, “handsaw”.
The 1st nods, then drops his pants and begins to masturbate.
The 3rd freaks out and runs down to the first yelling, '‘What the hell is wrong with you!?! Are you stupid or something? I was saying that I needed a handsaw!’'
The 1st looks at him and says, ‘‘I knew that. I was just trying to tell you that I was coming.’’[/QUOTE]
My wife gets pissed every time that I tell this joke.