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Tag Archives: bad management
The Big Wage Freeze
I was chatting with one of the admins in payroll and the subject of the pay freeze came up. She laughed. Sure wages were frozen but hadn’t I noticed the rash of title changes around here?
Pie Charts
I alone understand that Philip is fighting for his corporate life here. The justification for his existence comes from making changes and reporting that he was responsible for them. He wanted to meet with his boss, show the old and new pie charts side by side. His boss would be very impressed. Only the cussed sysadmins were in the way of this "dynamic leveraging of synergy."
It doesn’t work!
I was summoned to the New Prospects Office to see a new program not working.
“See? Pressing the F6 key should repeat the last operation. It does nothing! None of the F keys work!”
“We rewrote this program to make it transactional and prevent people doing certain things twice. You were at that meeting where we brought [...]
My Intro to IT
The lesson here is that Stepho lasted surprisingly long at that company, longer than I did. He virtually managed the office infrastructure, however incompetently and destructively, extraordinary as it sounds. He had what it took to survive as a manager.
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