Originally Posted by
DERG
Yes you said it they are experienced "engineers". Well I guess where they come from, they get the license to ptactice from a different engineering body than we do here in the UK.
We, UK chartered engineers, swear an oath never to endanger life. Basically this means that you WALK AWAY from an enterprise that is taking serious with the safety of the public. Please note THE PUBLIC.
Calculated risks for enterprises such as the military has another set of rules. Nuclear installations are another example.
It is very clear to me that Boeing employs cheap people. To those who post on this site who have no understanding of what they opine on..HIYA..so glad you are nowhere near me or anything that I use day to day. May you burn in hell.
Sir. I am in fact a
UK Chartered Engineer and, for your information, there was no oath extracted from me of the form you suggest. And since all aviation is ultimately managed risk, no such absolute could be consistent with working in this industry, for any company on the planet.
I do however know that my Canadian Engineer colleagues do have an oathtaking ceremony and take it extremely seriously; the ring they all wear is by tradition (if not perhaps in fact) manufactured from metal reclaimed from a fatal bridge collapse in Quebec many years ago, to highlight on a daily basis the consequences of failure to do their duty.
I think you'll find that engineers the world over take their jobs seriously; I've never encountered a US DER, for example, who struck me as in any way cavalier as to his responsibilities. The same has applied to every engineer, of every nationality, in every company I've dealt with. I would say that we all, as engineers, have enough problems with the "common enemies" of bean-counters and project managers that we don't need to start throwing mud at each other.