Michael Madigan wrote: > I remember a large battlefield simulator experiment > crashing in our lab with one of the rack servers > turning off. > > My chair was directly in front of the server, so > someone started a rumor that I had shut the server off > by carelessly backing up into a server's power switch. > > Of course on further inspection, and trying to > duplicate the failure, you couldn't push the chair > into the button to get it to turn off, no matter how > you tried, since the button was recessed into the > chassis. > > Of course you can't un-ring a bell, and all 100 > participants in the experiment continued to blame me > for the experiment's failure. > > My point is that you should always follow up a fix > with an EMAIL explaining the cause and the remedy, > otherwise they will continue to believe it was your > software that didn't work. >
They needed a scapegoat, Michael. Your CYA idea wouldn't have mattered...they wouldn't have believed you. -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com "Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!" _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
