slightly OT: preventing user stupidity

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 09 09:17 , Michael J. Mc Avoy Sr. gie sprachen       
>"Vyizdur zomen emororz izaziz zander izorziz", and continued     
>with:                                                            
>
>> As Bill Vermillon keenly pointed out:
>
>> "The way you phrased that it almost seems there is some gender bias
>> there.  At one site where I did work as an outside consultant
>> one of the women there was the best programmer I think I've ever
>> met."
>
>> Well when you worked dang near all of life at a place and
>> people come in, blow smoke up the CEO's ass to make themselves
>> larger than life, and the untrained eye asks "What the hell are
>> they doing over there? trying to run the place in the ground?",
>> it's SHE. Now it could of been HIM except he did a better job
>> of standing hisself up against a wall and saying fire than
>> could be imagined.
>
>> Now this is true. There were a husband & wife team, SHE was MIS
>> and he was head of electrical engineering. He quits and goes
>> to a competitor. Well having no reason to stay she just quits,
>> I mean SHE was it, no one else could manage or understand the
>> system and SHE is gone. In addition SHE had to have a hookup
>> from home so she could do work from home.
>
>I've worked in some places where there was to be NO personal
>relationships. If two people had a relationship one of them had to
>go.    

One of the first job-related pieces my father gave me was ``keep your
pecker out of the payroll''.

On the other hand there are lots of cases in Silicon Valley where husband
and wife work for competing companies so are sleeping with the enemy.

Bill
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