G&M wrote:
"Brian Sharrock" wrote in message
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Imagine having studied for years and years to achieve some
qualification in Electronic Engineering (employed in
Radar displays et. al ) and visiting home to hear your
mother telling her next door neighbour;- "Oh, Brian will
put in a plug(sic) in your washhouse for your new
washing machine- he's an electrician!" What do you do?
You get out the Rawlplug star drill and start bashing -
it was 1964 and life is to too short to try and explain.

Even worse was at one place I worked as an electronics R&D engineer,
the Health & Safety moron tried to tell me I wasn't qualified to
change a mains plug.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3736942.stm
Basically en emeritus professor of physics from the University of New Mexico
has been told he can't carry on teaching at the school he's been at for 2
years because he doesn't have the right bit of paper to say he's got the
equivalent of a grade C in GCSE maths.

Sometimes I think it's only the paperwork that matters, not the actual job
behind it.

--
James...
www.jameshart.co.uk