3 Jul
2000
3 Jul
'00
4:04 a.m.
People are given projects which stress them; if
I ask someone what they're doing and the answer doesn't routinely include
the phrases "...trying to figure out..." then it's time to give
them something more challenging to do.
This would be such a miracle to find here in the Louisville area.
Instead, it's the opposite: when a superior has asked how I'm
doing and when the answer has typically included "...trying to
figure out..." then they think I've lost my focus and have gone
off on a tangent. The expectation is that you've learned all you
need to know, and now you're expected to regurgutate it upon
command. And while that was bad in programming, it's even worse
in support; my boss is an athelete, and since that's the paradigm
he's most familiar with, he expects me to be working from some
playbook: you know, 3rd down, 50 yards, use play #32.
Sure wish there was an easy way to import that California good
attitude here; maybe there's something I could drop in the local
water supply?
Ok, Echelon, I was just kidding on that last part....
-doug q
3 Jul
3 Jul
5:43 a.m.
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
Instead, it's the opposite: when a superior has
asked how I'm
doing and when the answer has typically included "...trying to
figure out..." then they think I've lost my focus and have gone
off on a tangent. The expectation is that you've learned all you
Gak! Here the reverse is true like the first case, I'm not expected
to know all. I am however expected to use my skills to find out what
I need to know and solve problems. that I enjoy greatly!
Allison
12:05 p.m.
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
in support; my boss is an athelete, and since
that's the paradigm
he's most familiar with, he expects me to be working from some
playbook: you know, 3rd down, 50 yards, use play #32.
No idea what that means; I don't know much about football - not really
anxious to learn anything about it either. Perhaps you've just hit
the nail on the head regarding something wrong with society: sports
like baseball, football, hockey, basketball, etc. need to be done away
with. If people want exercise, let them go swimming, do circuit
weight training or collect and hack computers, ride horses, get
involved in martial arts, etc. - things that are actually good for the
mind and body, as opposed to sitting on a sofa watching a bunch of
overpaid jocks on steriods, with the mental capactiy to utter, "duhhh,
I plays footbawl," tossing a ball around, spitting in public and
scratching their private parts. A good start might be to convert
public parks with ballfields to parks with gardens and convert golf
courses to something more civilized, like horse pastures with space
set aside for weekly hamfests - that is, once the holes are filled in
and the land is detoxified.
Hacking and collecting computers - the bigger the better - is great
for the mind and body; I think that's something we all know. :-)
Speaking of weekly, or even monthly, hamfests, does anyone know of an
area where weekly or monthly hamfests take place like weekly flea
markets appear in some places?
Sure wish there was an easy way to import that
California good
attitude here; maybe there's something I could drop in the local
water supply?
More likey it's something in the air supply there... you need to get
someone smoking the right stuff and exhaling it into the exhaust
system in your boss's office if you want that California atmosphere
where you work. You might want to watch one of those films about
Californians to learn more about them... any title with "Cheech and
Chong" in it will suffice. Be forewarned, if you do this, things may
turn out stranger than you want them to, as I hear California's as
strange as New York City and Washington, DC (shudder!). ;-) Good luck!
--
R. D. Davis
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http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd
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