Asshole of the Week

i encoutered the worst 'Engineering Surveyor' early this week.
he behaves like a complete asshole who seems to find joy in creating trouble for companies he's 'surveying'. he's also one heck of an inflexible person..i guess his old age explains that -_-

this uncle..was employed by a client of ours to ensure that we're providing quality products. so over the last few weeks, we have been churning out quite abit of paperwork for them. i was assigned to design and fill out a welding log sheet..with whatever info i get from production. my knowledge of welding is limited but least i was sure i knew what i was writing on the form.

so the man called on monday..asked to speak to my mum ( i work for my parents) - she wasn't there. then he asked to speak to my dad - he wasn't in the office either.
here's a bit of phone conversation #1

ES (engineering surveryor) : who am i speaking to?
Me : this is Cheryl
ES : oh so you're the designer?
Me : *hesitates* erm ya..?
( i regretted that coz i'm only the draftsman..the designer is probably somewhere in saudi arabia..)
ES : ok your form right? you wrote FW and BW..what does that stand for?
Me : FW? is fillet weld and BW is butt weld
ES : so this fillet weld for the socket is bleh bleh bleh, bleh bleh
( this is where i lose him..didn't know what he was trying to get at )
Me : Uh-huh..
( i was hoping he will go on and i can take a msg or something )
ES : Do you know what i'm talking about..?
Me : No..i'm not very sure coz i'm only responsible for preparing the form and i'm not from the production side. If you want i can get someone else to answer your question.
ES : Ok i call back in 10mins.

10mins later..

Phone conversation #2

ES : can i speak to Cheryl?
Me : yes speaking
ES : what does FW stand for?
( i was like WTF?! you ask me again for what? i thought i answered that already?! )
Me : fillet weld (-_-)
ES : so this fillet weld..is there full penetration?
Me : you hold on *passes phone over to the mother*
( my mum went on to tell him there's no full penetration for the weld in question..among other things. she doesn't like to deal with him either..)

i was pissed off! did he not hear when i said i'm not part of production and i'm only responsible for the form and the form alone? or did he hear it and was doing this delibrately coz he thinks i'm a girl and i'm useless when it comes to engineering stuff?!

the next day,
our client called..he spoke to my mum and my name was mentioned.
so after the call i asked why?
according to my mum, the brilliant ES told our client
"Cheryl said that there was full penetration for the weld in question."

GREAT JOB MR ES

he twisted my mum's words and framed me.

GREAT JOB MR ES

after a discussion with my dad..i finally understood the whole concept of a full penetration weld and my goodness
ES is such a turd!
even me who had no previous training or knowledge of welding could deduce that such welding is not possible for this particular joint he was asking about!!
i won't bore you by trying to explain why it's not possible.. =P
but he follows engineering theories blindly and he doesn't actually use his logic

stupid.

other than this episode, he picks on small issues that doesn't affect the quality of our product.
i mean if there was any mistake that compromised the stability or whatever of the structure then yes..we will do everything we can to correct the issue
but no..there was no such issue.

ergh. so not professional. so tactless.

so what if you're working for an ISO certified company?
so what if you're have years of experience?
so what?