13 Aug
2010
13 Aug
'10
1:33 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Ian King wrote:
You've never worked in a mainframe shop, have you?
I'm not defending
Microsoft, but neither they nor their products created the sort of
approach you're describing.
I remember having to get all sorts of special authorization to access
the scratch environment on our Amdahl. Then I developed a process that
saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars a year (real dollars,
paid to outside vendors) - not that I ever received any reward for that.
In fact, I got chewed out - gently - for going outside my job
description.
..that reminds me of something else that makes it even worse. SOX
compliance. If I had a time machine that I could only use a single time,
I'd use it to go back in time and kill the CEOs of Enron, Worldcom, Tyco
, Peregrine Systems and Adelphia as children.
You haven't experienced soul-crushing asshattery of epic scales until
you've been told to become "sox compliant".
g.
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