I nearly died laughing at this particular Architect firm today, of whom – well, as you all already know – I really despise with.
Today we had a meeting with the Client in regards to Extension of Time. There are three projects with three teams of consultants. This particular worthless Architect firm was lucky because they are number two to do presentations.
Okay, maybe I am a bit harsh in my words… but I tell you, this Architect doesn’t even know how to do a presentation. Even my nieces and nephews know how to do a presentation. So that makes them worthless.
Lucky – because they were the second team to do a presentation. So they manage to “copy” entirely how the first team did their presentation. Yes, they did just that. Lucky there was a white board, so they just draw their presentation on the white board which reminds me when I was doing some lecturing in my early working days. Buruknya!!
You see – this Architect firm – comes empty handed. Okay lah, not really. But they came with only pieces of papers and documents. The other consultant team are equipped with a notebook, of which they just turn on and ta da – there goes their very detailed presentation!!!
As for this worthless Architect firm – when it was their time to present – the wife just go to the white board and starts drawing whatever they want to present and in the full glare of the crowd, it was very obvious that they have just drawn up the presentation on a piece of paper – last minute. And I have said earlier, the presentation was copied entirely from the first team. Lucky the first team ‘style’ is very simple. Imagine if the 3trd team presented first – their presentation was really detailed that doing last minute ‘copying’ as what the worthless Architect firm did, would be impossible. Lucky them.
Lucky there are no competition for presentation.. hahaha.. they would have come last place.
Last time I complained that this Architect firm couldn’t even write a proper letter. The other day, they wrote again replying to our letter and their answer is laughable – we wrote about something else and they replied totally a different thing. I read what I have written and wondered how come these so-called professionals can’t even answer a simple question, which even a kid can understand.
Today, they can’t even do a proper presentation to the Client.
What I labelled them is harsh but they are IMHO a worthless Architect firm!!
The Principal also is truly worthless. I have been coming for the meeting numerous times and he still doesn’t know me. This morning, we met before the meeting. He look hard at me.. and I already know he don’t recognise me. Then he said “Ahh.. you’re the one who likes to write us many letters..”
I wanted to told him this “Yes. It is me. It also good for you so that you can practice how to write and answering letters.. since you don’t even know how to..” hahaha… but I didn’t because I am just “makan gaji punya orang”.
I’ve written countless letters, be it a complicated one or simple letters. And mind you, practice make perfect. My ex-boss once advise me to really give a thought to what we write, even though how simple it is, as a letter can have many consequences..
Well. What a worthless Architect firm!!! I wonder why they still get projects…
4 comments:
Haiya, mcm ini punya kompeni pun masih wujud di muka bumi. For sure they got the project through insider. What a scum of the earth. I hate to say this, but totally reminds me of our supposed to be the center of excellence in research building project, ruined by the the unscrupulous damn companies. Suri na Hombi, Emo sikit.
p/s kalo sa tinguk tu presentation mungkin pigi keluar suda pura2 pigi jamban
Biasala tu lumrah dunia... In this age, although there are many young professionals like us, there are also older professionals that learned the old school way. It's not that they're dumb, but back in the old days, they learned how to do things by hand. I've known many older engineers that are very intelligent they know how to do calculations from scratch (i.e. not using computer software to calculate things for them). An engineer I know, he did all his design calculations by hand on paper (using a calculator) and he has designed pipes, lift stations, etc for sewer. He said that young engineers just know how to plug in numbers in a computer software and let the computer tell them what the answer is. In the end, he said that the younger engineers don't understand how they came up with a number and how reasonable a number is. And I totally agree with him on that because I've seen engineers design pipes with 300 ft/sec velocity of water in it! How crazy.
Having that said, hopefully the architect firm you despise isn't old school but just isn't qualified :) I did work for a boss who didn't know a thing, don't know computer, don't know design, but was a prof engineer licensed in one state. Later after a few years I found out that he actually lost his license while practicing at the state he was from before he moved to where he is now. So there are professionals who just aren't qualified, I agree with you on that! But there are also professionals who just learned how to do things the hard way, by hand! Take care, Homb.
I agree with what Aza said that there are old school professionals who do things by hands... I've seen and been with some of them
unfortunately - for this particular Architect Firm - they just don't know what to do or just plain lazy!! They're are actually famous for 'pushing' works to other consultants in their team and of course the contractor... unless it has any 'rewards' for them
I suppose it's down to theuir attitude I believe.
I don't know why they still exist as Lab Papa said..
I experienced it myself from this Architect - pura-pura asking for softcopies of reports konon and lagi bikin panas konon the Client is asking for it - but i know they need to prepare their own report for the
client.. so mau senang bah diorang. So... sia kasi delay sampai berminggu-minggu or i give them in PDF form.. baru tau!!
In the early contract period, they asked this and that from me, perhaps they thought I am BODOH, DON'T KNOW A THING.. but baru diorang tau kena kasi main2 oleh saya hahaha
The boss is a qualified Architect Aza but it's just that he and his firm are just worthless, useless etc.. talk a lot and neverending, but always pushing responsibilities to others eventhough it is theirs... but if they have any 'interests' in a particular thing or item... hmmm... they will surely 'rajin' to do it eventhough it's not their scope.. there is a story behind this but i can't tell it here.. just found out about it... hehehe
cheers
bah jangan lah kau buka pekung di dada dia...sia pun careful ni kalau blog pasal orang opis... takut bah nanti kena saman for defamatory remarks (?) but this one is okay la sbb sia tidak kerja sama dia suda. ex-bos yg sia cerita lost his license tu kan, several months after i quit, he was fired for looking at porn. haha.. funny funny i wonder if it was true because he hardly knew how to open the internet browser.
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