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LMAO !! .. actually .. this only happened twice ... none the Less ... in
this day and age of buzz word proliferation, ... technically ... I was
not canned ... I was PUSHED to a point where I'd retaliate ... :-) just
so that my manager at the time could justify her inferiority complex and
the sheer lack of anything that resembled a brain.
The other time was when my then director (who disliked the fact that I
was versed in assembler) would constantly make changes to the system
w/out telling anybody. Invariably, I'd get a call (and this happened
almost every day for five years before I got tired) every night from
operations saying that none of my images would come back up after the
IPL(lpars back then). When asked why they IPL'd, they said ...
'because.. he (my director) told them to'.
After having gone into work past midnight to fix somebody else's screw
up for years, I finally told them to call him and get his arse into the
office and that I was going to hang up the phone and leave it off the hook.
The result was that I had a 'dead' shop for just over a day or so (call
it a LONG maint. Window ??) ... The first few times that this had
happened, two VP's interfered and chewed out most of my then directors
already nonexistent arse ... I was then told (by both VP's) to revoke my
director's id ... but .. stupid me .. I did not ...
Ahh ... what games we play ... :-)
Say whatever happened to the plain simple world of English ?? :-)
(okay ... time to ROFL now ..).
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Had a similar experience long ago. I'd just returned from a 2-week
vacation and my answering machine was FULL, with a 90-minute tape for
incoming messages. My "leader" had inquired why our 3211 FCB images had
9 and 12 punches and he wanted them taken out. (System was SVS and
HASP-4) I explained that the system needed them to sense the end of
page. Well, he went ahead and removed all the 9 and 12 "punches" from
all the FCB images why I was gone and nothing had printed correctly for
a week. I immediately replaced all the images from my original source
and everything was fine again. Senior management wanted to know what had
happened so I explained the problem. My boss accused me of calling him
incompetant, which he was, and threatened to fire me on the spot. I told
him to do something that was anatomically impossible and went back to
doing my job. I got called on the carpet about that and when I explained
the circumstances was told that the sentiment was valid but the delivery
should have been more "diplomatic". I should have told him to go to H**L
in such a way that he looked forward to the trip. :-)
Started a new job three weeks later, with a vast sigh of relief. :-)
Rick
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