Really? You can't build a pool on a slope because liquid won't remain in the pool?? Come ON...your jerkin my chain here!! REALLY?!?!
You've been clear? Really? You mentioned the pool was to be built on the side of a hill? SM pointed that particular bit of info out when he posted his original story?
Again, NOWHERE in SM's post before his snarky little "gotcha" moment does it mention that the plot of land he chose to build the retention pond on was anything other than flat. What kind of incredible moron asks a subordinate to design a retention pond on land that slopes and doesn't offer up that critical bit of info at the onset?
Zap you still don't get it, do you? Ponds are built on slopes all the time. The water
surface, however, must always be level. Anyone who ever filled up a bucket of water and left it on the floor should know that. Swing that bucket around in a circle, causing acceleration at a constant rate, and you can then make the water surface hold a slope, but that's not exactly feasible for a pond, built into the earth.
You should learn something from this Zap. This gal graduated from MIT, arguably the #1 engineering school in the country if not the planet, and from this high status her defining trait was merely arrogance. Arrogance is thinking that you are always right no matter what common sense and the simply facts around you are telling you.
You displayed arrogance in your first reply to me on this post. Instead or reading what I wrote, you made assumptions of what had occurred. And in spite of others around you telling you you fucked up you continue to insist on being right and the rest of the world must comply.
The fact is that I worked for a large consulting firm managing a dozen or so employees with a half-dozen or so projects. I was the guy that took on the unusual projects, ones that the firm had little or no experience with. The partners in the firm knew that I was too stubborn to let a difficult assignment get the best of me and had enough common sense to figure things out as I went along. I always got the job done and made those fuckers a lot of money.
They also gave me a lot of the head cases to work for me, usually after other project managers gave up on them. This gal was one of those, and after several weeks I was able to instill some semblance of practicality into her and start to use her talents.
