Reminder of the week

[Crawdaddy79]

Originally Posted by allen101ca

basically, some division wanted some easy test and some data. My manager doesn't want our group to do it because of politics and it was verbal over the phone in a conference call. So, the request is given to someone NOT in my group that doesn't even have the equipment to preform it. This guy comes over to me (because he knows I can do it), and asks for help. dun-dun-dun. I take 15 min out of my day to do it for him, give him the data, and told him I didn't want any part of it. Don't say shit where it came from. The data gets to the division requesting it, and an email pops up detailing the data and that it looks great....but WITH my name attached. My boss is on that cc. ring ring ring. It's my boss on the other end.

Sounds like you work with a lot of former military people, or government people.

[Crawdaddy79]

Also preform.

[Perky McGiggles]

Originally Posted by allen101ca

basically, some division wanted some easy test and some data. My manager doesn't want our group to do it because of politics and it was verbal over the phone in a conference call. So, the request is given to someone NOT in my group that doesn't even have the equipment to preform it. This guy comes over to me (because he knows I can do it), and asks for help. dun-dun-dun. I take 15 min out of my day to do it for him, give him the data, and told him I didn't want any part of it. Don't say shit where it came from. The data gets to the division requesting it, and an email pops up detailing the data and that it looks great....but WITH my name attached. My boss is on that cc. ring ring ring. It's my boss on the other end.

I've met dumb people in my life but never like this. Either I've been extremely lucky or just haven't been in the working world long enough.

[allen101ca]

[allen101ca]

11 years goes by fast.

[Ninomiya Kun]

it sure does oldfuck

[allen101ca]

Originally Posted by Crawdaddy79

Sounds like you work with a lot of former military people, or government people.

Close. The culture is still very contractor like. Hell, Donald Rumsfeld was CEO from 1990-1993.

[allen101ca]

I think that's where we got the company motto: You develop products with the people you have, not the people you might wish you had.

[allen101ca]

or how about this one:
There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know.

It's above the restroom stalls.

[Robotzombie]

i have a confession to make: i think that 'unknown unknowns' remark makes perfect sense

[Robotzombie]

then again, most philosophy makes it look like a dick and jane story, so maybe that explains it

[allen101ca]

I agree, that's why it's in the stalls.