On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:15 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC <[email protected]> wrote: > Kurt Wendt wrote: >> Hey there John, >> I second your Congratulations! > > Way to "kick ass" and show the Fox works great, John! I sent this > article to everyone in Technology here at Sylvan. The app I maintain is > a Foxpro app developed 15+ years ago and is today maintained in VFP9. > My boss was telling me how my product "is a core product, but it's not > core technology." What a doosch. She's the kind of manager who'd > replace it for no good reason just to be in line with the "everybody's > doing it" and "nobody got fired for choosing IBM." A manager in > technology who's never written a single line of code in her life and > never done anything on the hardware side either. Just a manager all her > life. Ugh. ------------------------
Had a talk to a friend last night on how management isn't like doing what you use to do. He is an engineer with a protein mfg and was just made top gear head with a limited and dysfunctional staff. Anyway he finds it hard deal with problems as an manager and it was easy as the engineer. In that one mindset didn't cross over to the other one or the other side easily. Because you have your heart and soul invested in VFP you cannot see her POV much like see cannot comprehend yours. You feel like you are sitting on a gold mine of great code that gets the job done. She may feel like it takes nothing to convert the beast to the WEB, and you guys cannot do that for any number of valid reasons. She may know that it takes a lot of work to move it to the web and is still putting in that time? Point being is that your boss shouldn't have to be skilled at what your job is, unless that is a part of their requirements. Much like my friend who is out of Mechanical design and engineering should he be able to create the new software for their flow controls? No he has a dipstick EE who does that. Managers have to manage the flow of the process as well as the needs of their staff. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ 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.
