From: Mathew Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 10:57 PM
Subject: RE: [Open_Gaming] Consolidated Remarks
>Martin da Man said:
>"Usually? Try industry, where the average worker NEVER has any say about
the
>deadline. And the consequences of a missed deadline in industry are so much
>larger than those of a missed deadline in academe, there's no comparison. A
>small sector of academe -- those seeking tenure and thus truly under
>"publish or perish" -- see worse personal consequences from missed
deadlines
>than do those in business. But you will almost never see an entire academic
>institution or even a school or department cease to exist because of
>deadlines missed. It happens in industry all the time."
>
>Yeah. Like being given a talking to by your boss for having to go to a
>walk-in clinic with your sick daughter when everyone KNOWS you have a hard
>deadline to meet . . . a little bit less forgiving than in an academic
world
>where if your thesis is delayed by a week it WON'T cost millions of dollars
>of corporate revenue. (How many industry professionals suffer stress
>headaches, ulcers, etc. compared to professional students?)
I never kept aspirin with me when I was a student. Now that I'm in work in
web development, I keep my desk stocked with the largest bottle of aspirin
money can buy.
Chris
www.IDrankWhat.org
www.coincidental.net
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