Sealing designs produced in India 13

[ironmon]

Hey all,
I find myself stuck in a moral and ethical dilemma.
For the next 6 months my company sub'ed me out to a large corporation, where I am to review and seal designs created in India.
I guess this is the new normal in the push to Globalization.
I contacted my state Board to see if this violates the ethics policy. They were unwilling to comment.
Also contacted the state professional society, they were only able so far to give their personal opinion.

Of course there is this gray area about stamping other designs.
Some say no, never, others are ok with it assuming you review it fully.
But this feels even bad to me, like I am a pawn in a corporate shell game.

I sit here now on the fence, juggling my own responsibilities, my own conscience and whether I should just go along to get along.
Or refuse to do this work, and see what happens.

What say you?

 

[ironmon]

Another thing that makes this smell like a corporate shell game, is that the design firm is insisting that we review the designs there in their office.
Even though I sat there for a week and the only interaction I had with the design firm's personnel was to ask if I'm done yet.
Seems like a cya move, to make it feel legit.

They also, I was told, had a big layoff, makes me wonder if they staffed up, just to make it look like local jobs were being provided. The state in competing to get this plant kicked in 1.6 billion in "tax incentives".

Money does, what money wants to do.

Of course this is looking at it though my own bias, my boss says "at least they are building the plant here".

 

[urgross]

Ironmon,

I think you were correct on your original #3; I have not worked for over 30 years, starting as low man on the totem pole and first in the bucket for nothing. Experience has its perq's; I'll send a junior engineer to be the man-in-the-pit 'cause that's the way I learned, that's the way my mentors learned, and I'm far too old and crotchety to change now.

 

[RolMec]

Hello ironmon,

tight corner, really.. but...
pls. allow me to imagine some other setups of the issues..

If you leave the ring, how you gonna fight back?
Imagine, you get to be the man to have the hand and expertise to really see through "foreign" read alien designs. It would be you to be the cost correction factor that makes your homebase engineering cost attractive again 'cause the others'll be redoing it until professional standards are met.
I think that good expert designers cost their $s anywhere, else as intelligent people they'd move over somewhere more rewarding.

Why to shrink back from numbercrunching other peoples designs?
Imagine, you could be the "last instance" to review the plans of SS "Titanic" before building commences, and suddenly at 1:30 am of day 0 it's you to realize that the bulkheads don't meet the top deck...

How to stop globalization from your desk?
Imagine, you're The One to be able to look through those designs and find the issues, but refuse.. and "they" get to someone with a stamp at the ready and, well you see the picture!

Money does, what (some) people want to do.

Pls. forgive me all those simplifications, it's difficult to talk figurative.. me, that's more the numbers..

Best of luck, & Kind regards

R.

 

[HamburgerHelper]

I worked with a drafting group that had a bunch of their work subcontracted out to India. The drafters were to oversee the work. The drafters made it work about as well as you can imagine. It lasted about two months.