Today, my boss quit, leaving me as the only structural engineer at my company. I'm fresh out of college and will have to finish the projects on my own. Hope Google can teach me how to do this. FML
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Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, my boss quit his job and stopped coming in without warning. Guess who just inherited his tasks and responsibilities without the training or pay associated with his manager role. I was hired last year as a junior system admin. FML
Today, I was informed that- despite an already skeletal staff- my supervisor is leaving the company. Tomorrow. FML
Today, I've been working towards a management position at my IT job for 9 years. My boss quit, so I thought, "This is my chance!" Nope, our department got outsourced and now I'm interviewing for my own job on Monday. FML
Today, I got an email from the person I'm supposed to start an internship with next week, saying they're leaving the company. This has been planned since October and will be a year long. Now I have to try to sort things out as quickly as possible if I want to graduate on time. FML
Today, after spending months building my boss 3 websites and finishing them, I was fired via a short email, saying she didn't need my help anymore. I only worked for her for 3 months, so basically I stopped being useful when I finished her websites. FML
Today, I started a new job. After being trained on several obscure computer programs I'm expected to use in just one day, my new boss informed me she's going on a week long vacation starting tomorrow. She's the only other person who knows how this program runs. FML
Today, my boss hired a new meat cutter because our old one stopped showing up for work. After he put the smock on, I told him what needed to be done. Without saying a word, he walks over to my boss, hands him his smock and says, "I quit." Guess I'm on my own. FML
Today, I just started working in my core job domain, and all the guys working with me are giving up on their their jobs, because there's no future for it. It sucks being a mechanical design engineer in a country full of IT companies who just want us to convert. FML
Today, it's my first day as the boss, after waiting months for this promotion. Today is also the day my replacement, who I trained for three months, quit. Now I've got two jobs for the price of one. FML
Today, my boss gave me a new assignment at work: go online and look for my own replacement, then interview him. FML
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nzhx 23
Being the only one, you would be considered the head of structural engineering, correct? So request a meeting with the heads of your company and talk about hiring some new recruits, or at least sending you to a proper training.
castleofg1ass 19
Well its the company's responsibility to give you training so maybe talk to the CEO or the head of company
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Comments (59)
FoucaultsBitch 6
To all those saying jump in, google can help, etc... You do realize a structural engineer can have criminal charges filed against them if a structural failure costs lives?
Algorithm 24
I wonder if they'd be cheering OP on if OP were a surgeon who suddenly had to play it by ear and hope for the best. Very bad situation.
tantanpanda 26
^this would never happen in the first place. You don't go straight from med school to becoming a surgeon.
vikky538 29
Just don't run.. Google is your teacher now
jc1015 25
I’ll pass on being in the building or in the bridge built by someone who used google as a guide.
GetRektBro 15
Well, if your supposed to model a skyscraper maybe you should talk to your boss about it first.
shepp626 11
Don't go to Google, go to another engineer, call up the SWE and start making contacts. Don't trust Google with your career and license
Algorithm 24
Please don't accept this situation in a career where mistakes cost lives.
nitrog100 21
It would never come to that. The school I went to was a little under 1/3 engineering students, so I learned quite a bit about their work. The FML isn't so much about the engineering, which has rather set-in-stone standards, as it is getting the job done, e.g. how to get stuff approved, who does what, etc.
Algorithm 24
Look at the Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse. Now look back at me. Now back at the engineering failure that killed over a hundred people because those safeguard specs went unmet. Now look at your comment. Now look back at me.
Absolutely42000 3
How can you be fresh out of college and already have your PE? Qualify all of your work, and make other engineers sign and seal their scopes. Get stamped drawings or calcs and review them. If you have other trades to coordinate, call them and ask to speak with their engineers and work through it.
IWishIWasObama 12
Time to step up
iamsofuckedupla 19
Opportunity
imslappy 8
all that partying in college is paying off now right?
worldclassrager 41
Google isn't much of a mentor...maybe a real mentor will help more