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Pie Charts

By manxmog | Published: October 8, 2009
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."
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It doesn’t work!

By admin | Published: October 1, 2009
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 [...]
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Outsourcing

By admin | Published: September 19, 2009
There is no real lesson here. There is nothing I could have done differently, other than having a screaming fit. I could say that in the ideal scenario, where technicians made the technical decisions, the matter would have been expedited quickly and silently.
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