This guy was no engineer, he just assumed the title, as per how the job was set up and he replaced another guy who was the engineer in charge, neither had a professional engineers license.
The real engineers on that job worked for the state, very accomplished, and absolutely the best to work with, I enjoyed partnering with those guys as I worked directly in their offices for over a year before I went out on site, I still have one as a reference on my resume, and other architects from that state agency, I've worked with a lot of people over the years, these guys were an absolute pleasure to deal with and collaboratively, without their involvement, we would have never finished this large project one month ahead of the deadline and under the overall budget. I think the guy who had it in for me ended up as head of grounds or maintenance of some facility, camp or who knows, somewhere in the adirondack mountains, or near that area, a perfect place for someone like that, away from society LOL ! just like these places we were building for the worst inmates in the system. The other guy who was in this position, right at the end of the project, took some of the staff, prematurely, on some kind of local golf outing for an afternoon, but there was still work going on and if trades are on site, you better be too. He was relieved of his position by the State's E.I.C, who was a P.E., I remember meeting up with the right hand man of the commissioner of the dept of corrections, this was a new super max security facility, and he said, here's a guy making 200K, and when he did that with the staff it made some waves. This corrections dept was a real serious entity, and the man I mention, sure humbled me at one of the real high level meetings early on in the project, and at least I was smart enough to not engage him, I knew better. My father was involved in this prison expansion program in another area and dealt with this guy too and he got the same treatment, it took some doing to win him over, and the man was a hard@ss's hard@ss, mostly due to the commissioner above him, sh$t does roll down hill. Both of us did prove ourselves and that man had the utmost respect for us and what we do, but we had to earn that. That alone was an accomplishment.
Ironically, years after that job was done, I was helping a friend place concrete, he has a long time pool and pool repair business, and who do you think was his customer, the man under that commissioner and let me tell you he was the nicest person to work for at home, he had finally retired and we talked about that job, it was a pleasure for me, as I was at the weekly meetings for almost 2 years with this guy and corrections reps, what a contrast and he told me why the E.I.C. was removed from the job, I kinda wish it was the guy I had trouble with, but the golf outing guy got the boot, did not get the letter of recommendation/appreciation that we all received for our efforts and achieving the objective, he was a decent guy otherwise and well established in the business, I have him as a connection on linked in, I can't say I have not been tossed off a job either, we've all been there, but mine was not for some golf outing LOL. We all make mistakes, he was a great guy to work with, lot of fun and did his job too, unlike Captain Caine, still makes me cringe to think about that jerk LOL !
I've met some trash in the private sector in NYC while working construction, that had the audacity to call themselves engineers, just because they had a P.E. license, takes all kinds I suppose LOL !
