STRIP FOR May 25, 2008

When I first arrived at this nuclear power plant twenty years ago as a consulting engineer, I had to take the MMPI as part of my background check. As it turns out, most engineers in small consulting firms tend to "fail" the MMPI test, we are aggressive by nature. The next step was to meet with the company's shrink for a second test in which I had to sit in his office to take. The only responses allowed on the second test were either YES or NO. The first question on the test was, "Do you feel that you were wrongfully convicted of a crime?" Never having been convicted of anything, there was no way to correctly answer the question. When questioned, the shrink told me not to worry and that he would check the responses against my record. The shrink reminds me of Catburt at work.

I had a DOE Q clearance for many years and I was in the Personal Assurance Program (PAP). To get in PAP I had to take a battery of tests for Psychological evaluation. After taking the tests you had to meet with a Psychologist for a personal evaluation. When the meeting started he sat looking at my test results and after a few minutes he looked at me and said "Your not crazy, your just another wierd Engineer."

Ever since then I have been able to claim that I am a Government certified Wierd Engineer.

A secretary had a small poster over her desk that said "Trying to converse with an engineer is only slightly less difficult than trying to converse with the dead" All us engineers loved it :-)

I am afraid this website has become a dilbert comic itself.