Hi, Tom, Sadly, most jobs are taken for granted. If what one does gets done in a more than competent, seamless, almost invisible way, well, "after all, it's what he/she was paid to do".
I suspect that's what happened with the Y2K thing - no power plants blew up, jetliners didn't plummet from the sky, no defence computers crashed sending nuclear warheads to the former Soviet Union, everyone woke up with a hangover on Jan 1, 2000, sent off their e-mails without problem, and said, "Geez, this thing was just blown out of proportion!" Problem is, you guys did such a good job that no one noticed... If there's one thing I like about my current job, it's that I get more complements in a day than I used to get in a month in my former life. "Wow, that envelope got here quick!" "Aw, shucks, 't'was nothin', Ma'am..." <vbg> cheers, frank tom wrote: > Hear hear! In my former life I was a geek, and I managed a pretty big > Y2K conversion project. > > I worked 12-14 hours a day for 6 months, with at least 6 months of > planning before that. When we converted, no one noticed, no one bought > me a beer, 1 guy said "good job". > > It was one of those things that people only noticed if you screw it > up. If you did your job, the system looked exactly the same. Ho hum. I > kind of wish some big bank had made a huge screwup so everyone would > have known what a job it was. > > I'll take a sprained ankle and weepy assistant over that sort of thing > any day of the week! > > tv -- "What a senseless waste of human life" -The Customer in Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch
