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Old 02-24-2013, 05:04 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MTXA View Post
And of course, I would be remiss in dropping bombs on engineers without mentioning the full chain of poor decisions, i.e. engineer - designer - bean counter. Lots of bad can happen in between steps.
You said it all when you mentioned the bean counters. You make many good points in your follow up.

I just get a little sensitive when I hear people generally referring to automotive Engineers as idiots, as the ones making the accusation usually have very little understanding of what automotive Engineering consists of.
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