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by TheLoafOfBread 815 days ago
And cleaning staff are actually floor engineers. Everything is engineering if you are imaginative enough.
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guappa 815 days ago
In my country to be an engineer I have to have a university degree of a certain kind, then do a state exam for the national engineering association, then pay a yearly fee to remain an engineer.

I'm a bit discontent how just about anyone of my coworkers in USA can be a whatever engineer :D

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willcipriano 815 days ago
In America we look at the ideas someone has rather than what degree or membership they may have purchased.[0]

[0]https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/04/beaverton_man_cl...

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guappa 815 days ago
That's why salesmen whose only job is to promise literally whatever to customers are called "sales engineers"… because of their superior ideas -_-'

Studying and learning and taking exams? Nah… that's boring.

I'm going to point out that you have this exact system for lawyers and doctors… you can't just have ideas and be a lawyer or a doctor.

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ant6n 815 days ago
Nah, cleaning staff are hygiene technicians.
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jraph 815 days ago
Well, in English, "engineer" does seem to also mean technical worker (what we call "technicien" in French), in addition to "ingénieur".
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KptMarchewa 815 days ago
No, they are obviously flat surface managers.
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