Apologies for my long absence in my own thread but I was travelling abroad without internet connection.
@Kenat
The "technical documentation" I am referring to is installation & commissioning documentation of some serious pieces (multi-million Dollar) of rotating equipment for oil&gas...
Thanks for all the replies & opinions!
@ctopher
Going along right now and let it come back to me: I just don't think that will happen once things have been settled. The reason for this is that I work at one of the largest corporations in the world and these things don't just turn around in a...
Hi,
I've been working in project management for major oil & gas solution providers for about two years now.
As things turn out, my manager has recently decided to take on the responsibility for having his people create part of the technical documentation in stead of having the engineers do...
Update from my side. So I sent an e-mail to all business contacts that needed to be informed as far as I was concerned. The content of the e-mail was more or less the same as in my post of 9 Oct.
It turned out that I was right and not a single contact had been made aware of my upcoming...
I concur with PSE. If you do decide to re-hire, get him on a contract. If things don't work out, you can lose him much easier.
My personal opinion is that someone leaving, should not be returning in the short term (say up to 2 years). Also should they want to return after a longer period, make...
@SylvestreW:
Just about the same story here. Some of these contacts, I will meet again in my new job even though I'm not moving to a direct competitor or anything.
As for the the company being responsible for taking car of this, they've had 1.5 months to do so. With 3 weeks to go, I feel it is...
The contents of the e-mail would be like this:
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I will be leaving company X as of.... Thank you all for the
pleasant working relationship, maybe we will meet again in the future.
After my departure, you will be left in the capable hands of person X who will be assuming responsibility for...
Well, we're probably getting right down to the reason of me posting this here: the lack of procedure at my current employer....
Furthermore, it's been years and years since any of the senior staff has left the company. I'm actually the first senior staff member in six years (the time that I've...
Hi all,
As of november 1st, I will be leaving my current job. My question is whether any of you have informed customers, suppliers and other external people.
In my position (Sr. Engineer) I have a lot of dealings with both customers and suppliers. In my opinion it would be the right thing to...
We prefer to outsource our engineering to two local contractors we use every now and then. The benefits are that they get to know our products and requirements.
We outsourced the engineering and the drafting, but we closely supervise both. Even though it takes up a considerable amount of...
I have found that having a "mentor" of sorts is a great thing when you start your career in engineering. It really was a big help for me and really accelerated my learning curve.
Since you're still very young, go with the job you have the best feeling about. Job-security can be better at bigger...
I have the same problem. If a document needs approval from me, I always look at the print-out which I sign of when approved.
Solidworks 2006/DBWorks 2006 user
My soon to be wife works at a notary solicitor's office while she has an agricultural (dairy cattle farming) education. She's an absolute non-tech person and that's
probably a good thing since I'd be discussing tech-stuff all the time. And that's exactly what I do with my father who used to be...
All of the engineers here (3, including me) have been using a Spacepilot since we started using Solidworks about seven months ago.
As I already had some experience with these things from a couple of years back (with UGS) it was simply a MUST-HAVE for me with my colleagues being slightly...
