For the record, I was educated in the engineering ways at NY Maritime College in NYC,so I thought this was very relevant.
"An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, "Ah, you're an engineer — you're assigned to the engine room of hell."
So the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of accommodations and starts designing and building improvements.
After a while, they've got air-conditioning, flush toilets, escalators, elevators and so on ... and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.
One day, God calls Satan on the telephone.
"So, how's it going down there in hell?" God says.
"Hey, things are going great. We've got air-conditioning and flush toilets and escalators. There's no telling what our engineer is going to come up with next!" Satan says.
"What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake — he should have never gotten down there. Send him back immediately!" God says.
"No way! I like having an engineer on the staff — I'm keeping him!" Satan says.
"Send him back up here or I'll sue!" God says.
Satan laughs uproariously and answers:
"Yeah, right. And just where are you going to get a lawyer?"
Amen. TG
Perfect! Thanks Tim!
Good one Tim. Reminded me of the years of frustration serving on my company's risk committee. I was the manufacturing engineering representative. When potential litigation came up I spent my time proving that we had absolutely no fault in the damage or injury only to have counsel say we'll settle. His position, and i guess a good one, is bad things can happen in a courtroom so we never want to go there if we can throw a little money at it.