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Subject: From harsh life experiences we all know that:
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The Pessimist's guide to Engineer-talk. (what they say - what they mean)
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"That's interesting"
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- Shit! I've never seen anything remotely like that before.
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"We'll just run diagnostics"
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- I wonder if that'll give us a clue.
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"So we've eliminated XXX"
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- It's probably XXX, but it's bloody hard to get at.
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"I've just powered it down"
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- I tripped over that bloody power cord again
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"Ok, that's good"
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- What the hell was that noise?!?
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"We've noticed some failure evidence"
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- Something's burning...
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"If you'll just..."
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- I don't want to be the one to blame when it crashes
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"Yes, you'd expect to see that..."
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- Hell, that's stuffed as well!
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"We'll just fit a revision"
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- We'll put the same version in from a different tape.
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