- When PHB asks for weekly progress report on a project and you begin
to describe tasks a, b, and c completion status, he interrupts with "I
just need to know a percentage", and then gets visibly annoyed when
you take last week's progress and just add 5% to it.

- When PHB tries to relate his mainframe development experience from a
decade back to Java/Struts development, particularly in the context of
trying to knock down your task estimates.

-ed

On 1/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>  . . . you want to know whether that feature is 90% done or 95% done.
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>  --- On Fri 01/27, Ted Husted < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> From: Ted Husted [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: user@struts.apache.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:54:40 -0500
> Subject: [FRIDAY] You might be a pointy-haired-boss if ...
>
> ... you think blogs are a breakfast treat.Engineer: "I like to start each day 
> with a cup of coffee and a couple of blogs."PHB: ... Hmmmm ... A cream-filled 
> blog would hit the spot ...-Ted.** 
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