You did a lot better job of expressing my thoughts than I did. I wrote my original comment for this thread in a hurry. I had a short lunch because one of our suppliers gave us a shipment of parts that were all out of spec. Management told me to keep the parts since they would get a discount on their next shipment if they kept these bad parts for production. Using these bad parts caused more rework than we’re saving. Buuuut I’m just ranting.

Back in my school IEs are called “Imaginary Enginners.” So they made shirts that said “We may be Imaginary Engineers but we’ll be your boss someday.”