Some heat and mass transfer + the will to keep going.

I am a chemical engineer and I hate it and I want to know how much money you make and I can’t figure out why this is happening to me!

/s 50% of the posts these days

Seriously, who would think giving themselves this "title" would do them any favors? lmao

The other day at the plant I work at we were talking after our morning meeting as we do about interesting papers we’ve read and such; and an unusual unit came up: deaths per kilowatt hour (deaths/kWh). Anyone else have any strange units of measurement for around your field?

Dumbest thing I ever heard was senior year of undergrad. Had a (graduating)mechanical engineer try to tell me that condensation on an object came from “microscopic holes” in the objects surface allowing water to escape. He didn’t believe me that it was from the air cooling and leaving moisture.

Went to my other (graduating) Chemical engineering roommate to have him reassure the Mechanical that it was indeed from the air and not “microscopic holes”. However, he genuinely also believed it was from holes in the object.

🤦‍♂️ I lost it.

What’s your dumbest thing from school or industry

Hey guys,

posting this after 3h of work because I need some time and vent off.

In my case its using a cheap "bootleg" version of AutoCAD for drawings which sometimes lags abnormal and the duration to open a file lasts 10 minutes on a bad day.
Additionally working on a equipment list which is shitty formated with millions of (hidden) columns, so just copy&paste from another project isnt possible and the performance is whack as well.

There are more annoying things on my job like doing the same brainless shit over and over and I only have to concentrate so I dont make mistakes in details (which Im doing either way). But the most of it are due the format and the software we use is not optimized and Im catching myself cursing silently too often during work. Im a verly laid back person normally but this job challenges my patience and Im discovering a new dark side in me I never thought of it.

After 5h of work Im so mentally exhausted that I just suring on the internet, but still hit the deadline.

So Im curious what's the most annoying side of your current job and the frequency of it?
Lets suffer together.

I've been playing around with the VEO3 AI Video generation tool on Gemini this week and came up with this - remember the old meme that showed six pictures and it was things like "what my mom thinks I do", "what my friends think I do", "what my boss thinks I do"...that was the inspiration for this - and I had this community in mind. Hope you enjoy and please don't hurt me if I'm off on any of this.