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read a lot of dilbert comics ;)

• dkarl 16y ago
  You should have left off the smiley. Meeting of engineers, one engineer gives a presentation of a system that will be extremely expensive to integrate with, has unknown reliability, offers no benefit, will suck up the time of a lot of capable people, but we're going to integrate with it anyway, because we've been told this is part of our "direction." Plus our division is going to be paying a crapload of money to some other division for the privilege of integrating this system, which will affect our bonuses. It's pretty easy to explain why this is a stupid idea, but the order came down from our boss's boss's boss's boss, and nobody is allowed to explain things to a boss's boss's boss's boss, not even our boss's boss. Especially when you want to explain that the thing she's doing to look good to her boss (and her boss's boss,) presumably to improve her bonus, is actually bad for the company. When it's all done, they will claim it's saving us $N million dollars per year, even though it was actually a costly mistake. How do I know this? Because the same thing happened less than two years ago. Add comedic and artistic skill, and voila, a Dilbert strip. Maybe two or three.