One day in the life of an engineer

Many people have wondered what it's like to be an engineer. They often think it means sitting at my desk with my calculator all day or out saving the world and traveling like Sydney Bristow. Yes, I have had days like that (the former, not the later), but really almost every day is a new adventure and today definitely qualifies as one.

This morning I planned on having some hardware moved for my lab experiment, but somehow it got lost. I've been waiting many months for this stuff and its kinda important to my program. We received it from the vendor a few days ago and it was processed by our illustrious receiving and transportation department...which then lost it...so today my goal was to find it.

Who would've ever thunk that it'd take 8 hours to find some boxes. Now these are not little boxes. I can't even move them by myself. I looked in 3 different buildings, talked to people in some other buildings, did a little yelling, hunted around a little more and finally they just showed up in some guys cubicle. I even found a casket in the underground tunnel in my journey.

Now it's the end of the day, I've completed my goal of finding the boxes...unfortunatly because I'm an engineer and not part of the union I can't move them...so I'll have to wait til Monday and call transportation to move them...and hopefully they won't lose them again.