Office politics (was Re: Case Sensitivity & @bk)

[Bill Vermillion]

On or about Wed, Jul 21 21:16 , while attempting a Zarathustra 
emulation Kenneth Brody thus spake: 

> GCC Consulting wrote:
> [...]
> > When he asks how long it will take to get a modification done, he is told it
> > would be submitted, considered, and if they agree and analysis will be done.
> > Then they will get back with a price.  Once the contract has been signed, it may
> > take up to 2 months to start the project.  He asks, "what if I need a new
> > report".  They tell him 4-6 weeks.
> > 
> > Now, the sales manager for this company is someone who I worked with years ago.
> > My client tells him, "Richard does the report for me right away.  I get some
> > modifications with a few days and others with the month.
> [...]
> 
> That reminds me of a story...
> 
> Large company has its own DP department.  They need some new reports for
> their medical claims software.  DP department says they can get to it in
> a few months.  A filePro developer, working for the same company, takes
> the specs home and codes it single-handedly over the weekend in filePro.
> He offers it to the company at no cost, in an attempt to show them just
> how powerful filePro is.  They decline, so as to not upset their DP dept.
> He suggests using it only as an interim solution until DP can get around
> to their request for the new reports.  Again, no dice.  Apparently, the
> DP department was already pissed that some people at the company were
> using filePro and doing things themselves, rather than waiting on bended
> knee for them to get around to it.

Sounds exactly like a place I did work for.  First the ID
department wanted to get rid of 'all those Unix machines'.

Then the new department said "Everyting shall be MS".

I was still maintaing some FP on a Novell network and the the ID
department called me over.   They couldn't get their new SUN
operating properly nor get sendmail configured.  The found they
needed Unix to handle their web servers properly.   They were still
using an old SCO ODT 3 that  I set up as the mail gateway to the
internet that delivered mail to their OS/2 mail server, that
distributed mail to the Novell systems.   And some of their
networks would route through the same machine twice :-(

Bill
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