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On Tuesday 05 February 2008 19:59, Julian Hall wrote: > Tom Potts wrote: > > You'd think engineers would have heard of impedance missmatch wouldn't > > you? Tom te tom te tom > > Yes, but as you correctly point out, the management haven't. Great management decisions affecting my career: 1) Accountant at a small company explaining wonderfully why they couldn't afford to give us a inflation matching payrise and turning up a week later with a car that, over three years' cost 3* the inflation matching payrise would have. Happy staff! 2) Another small company planned redundancies and employed extra Permanent staff in the personell and accountancy depts to 'manage' the cost savings. 3) If I took my laptop into meetings I would sometimes 'act out' the ideas being discussed in code. In one meeting I wrote the basics of a multivariable purchasing mechanism. It would have taken me an afternoon to finish a working prototype. It had been decided the project would be outsourced before the meeting (but kept quiet to avoid problems). In the end they had 2 managers continuosly managing the outsourcing and popping off to India every month or so to look after an afternoons work. I found out later they had intended to make me redundant but thought they'd keep me on while the outsourcing company grasped the problem and get rid of me once they had. I got another couple of years there and the last I heard hadn't got the thing finished! Shame - cos I had a working version that they wouldn't use because..... Anyhow I is now a lousy Farmer - with 7 computers and too much time on my hands... Sorry! Tom te tom te tom > > C'est la vie.. > > Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html