tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post7842730972529063330..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: The Vacuum Part 2: Benign Or Malign?Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-39892714020419339432014-07-12T13:45:50.316-04:002014-07-12T13:45:50.316-04:00*sigh*
or a variation COMMA
PS: I think I may ha...*sigh*<br /><br /><i>or a variation</i> COMMA<br /><br />PS: I think I may have read a version with IBMs name on it and having several more layers of management involved.pdwalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05943525787137905313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-83707838046512792952014-07-12T12:06:56.329-04:002014-07-12T12:06:56.329-04:00Surely you've seen this, or a variation in you...Surely you've seen this, or a variation in your travels?<br /><br />===<br /><br />In the beginning, there was the Plan.<br /><br />And then came the Assumptions.<br /><br />And the Assumptions were without form.<br /><br />And the Plan was without substance.<br /><br />And darkness was upon the face of the Workers.<br /><br />And they spoke among themselves, saying, "It is a crock of shit, and it<br />stinks."<br /><br />And the Workers went unto their Supervisors and said, "It is a pail of<br />dung, and we can't live with the smell".<br /><br />And the Supervisors went unto their Managers, saying, "It is a container of<br />excrement, and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it."<br /><br />And the Managers went unto their Directors, saying, "It is a vessel of<br />fertilizer, and none may abide its strength."<br /><br />And the Directors spoke among themselves, Saying to one another, "It<br />contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong."<br /><br />And the Directors went to the Vice Presidents, saying unto them, "It<br />promotes growth, and it is very powerful."<br /><br />And the Vice Presidents went to the President, saying unto him, "This new<br />plan will actively promote the growth and vigor of the company with very<br />powerful effects."<br /><br />And the President looked upon the Plan and saw that it was good.<br /><br />And the Plan became Policy.<br /><br />And this is how sh** happens...pdwalkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05943525787137905313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-55758607099920445552014-07-11T17:29:16.488-04:002014-07-11T17:29:16.488-04:00And let's not forget the threat of outsourcing...And let's not forget the threat of outsourcing still hanging over jobs in IT, despite years of failure.<br /><br />This is paraphrased from my own experiences:<br />"Oh, you want to work only the agreed upon 40 hours? I have a team in Backwardstian of four programmers that cost half your salary!" so said a CTO to me one time in not so many words.<br /><br />"Not my first rodeo," I replied.<br /><br />They hire the 4 programmers. After dumping a cool $600k in one year --significantly higher than my salary -- on them with no results, despite adding more members to that team and flying some of them to America, all expenses paid, for an extend stay, the COO asked me to finish their project. I dumped their code, my team and I finished it in two months.<br /><br />A short time later the CTO tried to fire me, called me lazy and liar.<br /><br />I had almost stood up and rammed the weasel through a wall at that point, so I found another job posthaste.<br /><br />Last I heard, that company was circling the drain.<br /><br />After working there and at several other big companies, I have yet to see anything else than the 'kiss up, kick down' practice of management. The idea of a company with Judeo-Christian ethical constraints is something out of my experience of 17 years as a programmer.Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06204019386677018162noreply@blogger.com