Define Trust Me, I'm An Engineer Meaning

when you build structurally questionable buildings and unreliable solutions to problems but you're an engineer so everyone has no choice but to trust that your methods won't fuck up

"Trust me, i'm an engineer!"

Is a phrase meaning that someone is inexperienced or lacking in a skill and yet is pretending to know what their doing.

Such as stating that they are more knowledgeable or experienced than they actually are. It can also be used in the context of a recent particularly stupid event happening such as someone doing something stupid and cascading into an internet compilation worthy grand failure. The phrase was popularized by a video on YouTube called "Trust me, i'm an engineer !" posted in 2012 by a channel currently called, "TheVilkaz".

or just an engineer in tf2 who has no idea what hes doing but its really just the same concept