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Re-watching Jurassic Park after working in the corporate world was eye-opening. The entire park is controlled by a centralized computer system maintained by one
by wmf 3y ago
Re-watching Jurassic Park after working in the corporate world was eye-opening. The entire park is controlled by a centralized computer system maintained by one extremely disgruntled guy and Hammond just tells him to suck it up. Worst management ever.
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- sdenton4 3y agoAnd a notorious mail thief, at that...
- tempodox 3y agoMad scientists are infamous for their bad management skills.
- charles_f 3y agoHe's not a scientist, he's a businessman who spared no expense (except, apparently, on his main systems staff salary)
- swagasaurus-rex 3y agoHammond's justification is that he is not responsible for Dennis Nedry's gambling debts
- wannacboatmovie 3y agoIf you listen to the dialogue closely, Nedry was a contract employee who apparently set his own lowball price ("for what I bid on this job").
- willis936 3y agoI feel that an egotistical businessman not seeing the obvious single point failure of an essential disgruntled contract employee is one of the most believable parts of the movie.
- noduerme 3y agoJust speaking from personal experience, never take a job that makes it sound like living on-site is a "perk".
- sircastor 3y agoI assumed that it was non-negotiable. Like, part of the secrecy of the project was being onsite.
- speed_spread 3y agoYou're right but that doesn't contradict GP. Having to live onsite in not a perk no matter how the employer frames it and should be priced in accordingly unless you're desperate.
- charles_f 3y agoThe risk to be spat on in the eyes by some sort of venomous reptile is just too high
- jedberg 3y agoThe book goes into a lot more detail. Hammond is much more evil in the book. He basically has no respect for IT so he shits on Nedry constantly.
- jstarfish 3y agoNo respect for biology either, which is why everything went to shit in the first place. He could not have been a kindlier villain. The guy had terminal Narcissism.
- kinlan 3y agoI only just realised after reading this comment that Nedry is an anagram of Nerdy.
- jedberg 3y agoHuh. Today I learned. And it’s a pretty low effort anagram too!
- tempodox 3y agoOne can only hope that everyone learned their lesson: If you disregard IT, dinosaurs will eat your investors.
- marcosdumay 3y ago> He basically has no respect for IT so he shits on Nedry constantly. Well, hiring Nedry's prosperous company and bringing it to bankruptcy due to a constant stream of fraud is more than enough. The movie cuts that part out.
- Xenoamorphous 3y agoHammond did spare some expense it seems.
- ModernMech 3y agoThe guy who constantly had to claim he’s sparing no expense turns out to be a cheapskate. No surprise.
- willis936 3y agoWhen I watched Jurassic Park recently I felt that this was a subtle dig and commentary. As a kid you just think he's Willy Wonka Santa Claus magical adult figure who makes dinosaurs because none of the characters ever show anything other than respect for him. As an adult you can see how they might just be giving him the benefit of the doubt and handling the crisis gracefully. I had my own set of character criticisms that weren't just handed to me by the creators. Good stuff, really.
- kombookcha 3y agoHard agree - it's fun to go back as an adult! On rewatch I kind of took Hammond to be either so swept up in the romance of his dinosaur-revival that he didn't notice the glaring safety risks in the nuts and bolts of the operation, or possibly that he just lacked respect for/interest for those fields. He seemed to dote on the science and the 'fun' parts of the experience (dinosaurs, ice cream and safari aesthetics), while the logistics of it all was probably more like an annoying chore. He certainly did spare some expense on security and the IT. Everyone in the main cast probably were inclined to give Hammond a lot of benefit of the doubt on the disaster because one, he'd just wowed them with the scientific miracle of living dinosaurs, and two, he's promising loads of funding for their work in the future.
- ModernMech 3y ago> Everyone in the main cast probably were inclined to give Hammond a lot of benefit of the doubt on the disaster What do you mean? They were telling him the obvious problem with the park before the dino tour started ("the only one who agrees with me is the blood sucking lawyer!"). As soon as the TRex gets out Malcom says he hates be right all the time. Then after the raptor encounter at the visitor center, the first time they see him Grant tells Hammond he's not endorsing the park, and Hammond agrees that's the right call.
- stephenr 3y agoAs pointed out by Pitch Meeting: he invites his young grandchildren to the under construction park where a worker was just eaten. He's pretty terrible as a person, not just as a manager.
- blahyawnblah 3y agoI would imagine all the other sys admins were evacuated?