Crossposted from https://beehaw.org/post/24258253
This week, meet a reader we’ll Regomize as “Wilson” who once worked as the boss of a welding shop attached to an engineering consultancy.
Wilson set the scene by telling us this story came from the early 1980s, when AutoCAD was replacing drawing boards.
“We had a new structural engineer who those of us in the shop quickly identified as an idiot with a degree,” Wilson wrote.
One day, said idiot decided that the computers used to run AutoCAD needed to be cleaned and that the welding shop was the place to do the job.
What a goddamn motherfucker with a bought degree from a diploma mill. The kind you want to hit with a keyboard.
Equally dumb are the owners who hired him straight off the street and have no fucking idea either what better to do with what they bought: thousands of greenbacks in computer hardware and AutoCAD.