On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:27:22AM -0600, Dennis wrote: > > >I remember when I worked at Hughs Air Crash, I had time on my hands, > >and I wandered about and talked to other engineers about what they > >were doing (not the sort of thing the Security State encouraged even > >then). In talking to one engineer, I made several suggestions that > >ended up saving ~$1 million in hardware costs alone. Management were > >not amused. > > > They wanted to spend the million?
Well, they didn't exactly tell me that, but we are talking about military contracts here. They also were not amused that I was helping other projects. If I had been behind in my assigned duties, I could understand that. But I was ahead (one of the few people on my project who was). -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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