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    Angry Management

    How can someone just go out there and say something like

    “We are currently developing a new application and it will be done in 8 weeks”


    The true is we have not even started yet and it won’t be done in 8 weeks. Where did the 8 weeks come from? Do they just make it up as they go?

    I have dealt with more then one of these idiots in my career so clearly it is in their blood.:mad:

    Yeah, just copy and paste and it will be done.:mad:
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    ? Did you lose again.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Wongo
    ................Where did the 8 weeks come from? Do they just make it up as they go?..................
    Of course! It's not like they know what they're talking about is it?

    Mick
    "If you need a machine today and don't buy it,

    tomorrow you will have paid for it and not have it."

    - Henry Ford 1938

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    Funny. I seem to have been to similar meetings.:eek:

    ps: It is also your fault when things are not done in the stated time.:mad: :mad:

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    Relax. No-one can tell the difference between a rigged demo and the real thing

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    Been there, had similar dumped on me & my mates. Seems WW1 didn't get all the chinless B*****ds ( No worry Sir, My men can do that frontal assault without support!) and now they have bred.

    They belong to the same tribe that send out a heap of faxes to sub-offices at knock-off time on Fridays, as THEY walk out the door, with a requirement that a 20 or 30 page report must be prepared from scratch & presented by 9am Monday, after they have been sitting on the requirement for a couple of months - and its all the sub-office's fault if the report isn't done.

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    "Management knows what he is doing, he has his reasons, just do it for chrissake"

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    Wongo, your management folks are "inventors" or "innovators".A title-that's all you need these days. Simply imagine something, announce it with a deadline, and leave it to the peons to flesh out the details.

    Greg

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    I'm so glad I don't work for a company like that any more....
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    Scott,

    Don't take it too seriously, if you stand up to them you will get a reputation like mine - grumpy, irritable ........ Some of our Sales people ask me if I am OK if I don't tell them in fundamental terms daily my assesment of their mental state. I think they like me and feel this is my way of being friendly - it's not, I wish they would take my advice except the graveyards would be overflowing.

    They act like scumlike ignorant selfish fools but these people have no life, nobody respects them and I suspect they have small genitals.

    In modern day Australia many of our managers and it seems all our politicians have similar attitudes which is why this place is going down the tube.

    Think of all the beautiful things in your life such as your family, the invaluable time you spend with your family, your friends, your woodwork. Forget about the pea brains, if they treat you like this, view them as a source of money that you can use on those important things - family, woodwork ....

    Been there, done that
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    Wongo, I should remind you that MICROSOFT have been doing this for the past decade (atleast). we will have the new improved windows ready for shipping on blah, blah, blah... THEN they continually supply us with "patches"..

    so I ask you WHATS NEW?
    I try and do new things twice.. the first time to see if I can do it.. the second time to see if I like it
    Kev

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    We used to attend these meetings when I was a pubic servant, unfortunately we never had this useful tool then: http://elsmar.com/level2/Bingo.html
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain
    We used to attend these meetings when I was a pubic servant, unfortunately we never had this useful tool then: http://elsmar.com/level2/Bingo.html
    Great game and very true.

    Edit. Iain, that was a quick link change mate.

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    Stick to the facts, if you need to respond. Lay out a timeline showing how you see the real programme with your current resources. Then tell'em that if they need to accellerate there will be a cost - extra people, overtime, whatever. This notion of people being put here to flog our guts out for other's benefit and big-noting is &&&&ful.
    The only way to get rid of a [Domino] temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde

    .....so go4it people!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Termite

    Edit. Iain, that was a quick link change mate.
    The first one changed itself to too many &&&&&'s and wouldn't work, it was a better one too
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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