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From: [e-mail] (PENELOPE E. SMITH)
Newsgroups: sci.engr
Subject: Re: disgusted engineer
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:56:53 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (I am
 a terminator.) writes:
 (etc  to the effect that an IE is discouraged with management having nothing
 to do with the actual productivity of the plant)

The correct attitude to take in this position is that you are being paid to
spend time at the plant doing nothing !  Of course, such a situation won't
last forever, but the IE has almost no power to change it at all.  Thus, the
IE should do two things:
    1) Stop being depressed - do a hobby or something outside work.
    2) Prepare for the inevitable, and find another job, or at least do
    professional development so he will be employable when the inevitable
    happens.
Of course, if the management is lying, then you don't have to exactly tell the
truth to management, either.  Don't lose sleep - find some **real** (by
your internal definitions) but small project, and do it for its own sake.  By the way,
the general low morale and depression indicates that you should consider
looking at the plant emissions within the building.

    Good luck,
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Penelope E. Smith               [e-mail]
Department of Mathematics       [e-mail]
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA