Comments by "TeeKay" (@teekay_1) on "Fed. Crt Says Retired Engineer CAN Talk Publicly About Engineering" video.

@Grizabeebles Are you saying people who never took an engineering class anywhere would have more free speech than a retired doctor or an engineering without a PE? You should be uncomfortable saying people can't have an opinion on engineering matters simply because they don't have a license. Because in this case, he wasn't operating as a PE, he was offering an opinion based on his schooling and experience.
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@Grizabeebles It's not a straw man. If you listen to a retired doctor about taking an aspirin, and you don't give him your complete medical history, that's your issue, not the retired doctor. How, for example, would you know he's really a doctor? And if if you're a hemophiliac and you made it to adulthood with no knowledge of how aspirin is a bad idea, then.... that seems like a you problem. Similarly, if a mechanical engineer who is not certified by the government (a.k.a. the state board) offers an opinion in public on a bridge or skyscraper, and someone changes the design based on a guy's statement, then are you trying to blame the engineer? Or the guy who listened to him? There is an element of personal responsibility here that you're forgetting. Free speech rights are fairly absolute in the United States.
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@Grizabeebles a.k.a. "oops, I hadn't thought of that".
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@jaelwyn Yes, probably. But It's weird people think that you lose the right to comment on something because you're not certified. Hell, that were true, nobody could comment on sports, nobody could comment on the price of food, nobody could comment on whether they thought a traffic light was necessary. Meanwhile, half of all engineers are below average, so keep that in mind. Or as some friends back at university would say... what do you call an engineer who graduates with a "C" average ? an engineer
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@radicalrick9587 Non-competes in most states cannot be enforced unless the person is considered critical to the running of a business. So a guy in a machine shop who learns about their new fabricating machines couldn't be considered critical and thus cannot be held to a non-compete. The positions that can be held to a non-compete are people usually with a "C" in front of their title... CEO, CIO, CFO, CTO. But a journeyman lathe operator could not be held to a non-compete
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@Machistmo Oh really? Yet it was the Biden administration that developed a ministry of truth, and silenced people who disagreed with the governments lies. So as has often been said, it is better to keep your crazy ideas in your head and thought a fool rather than type it all out so people can have no doubt.
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@fishgutz4272 The problem is just the threat of a non-compete can cause other companies to decline to hire you.
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@economicprisoner Generally doesn't work in the IT industry because there's such a wide variety of skills that two software engineers can have the exact same training and years of experience and one will earn $300K a year the other will earn $100K a year because some people are really good at it, and others are barely adequate at it.
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