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Managers are known to get locked to rotten apples in their processes right? How do we expect freshness from their minds?
Vasudevan Deepak Kumar
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep!
modified on Friday, January 8, 2010 2:27 AM
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...what I do as long as my software runs properly. If I want to go on a course I just say so and it gets paid for; it is my own responsibility to stay relevant. Yet another reason why I am still working here!
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WOW!!! I know quite a number of people who'd want to be you!
Wamuti: Any man can be an island, but islands to need water around them!
Edmund Burke: No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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The downside is if I get it wrong it is 100% my own fault. He will support me personnel-wise to the hilt, but technically I am on my own. I stood in front of the Certifying committee all by myself. Uff.
This is a situation not everyone can handle. We have had people leave to go back to the micromanaging monsters because the responsibility was too much for them. To each his own.
I have to add, if I have doubts I can ask any colleague and get help. Some of the younger ones know stuff I didn't even know I was missing. And if they don't know, well, I come here...
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Well, I went into the survey to pick out the ideal answer which was "my manager listens to new ideas; but, only thinks his rock." 
I'm always under the impression that there is more than one way to program an item. I've been doing this kind of work for 16+ years and still find it amazing. Everything is possible with computers; you just have to know how to speek their language and understand they only do what they are told.
Anyway, back to the poll. So, my option wasn't exactly there.... I'd like to give credit; sometimes my manager does have a few good ideas.
James
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James Kosin wrote: Everything is possible with computers; you just have to know how to speek their language and understand they only do what they are told.
Exactly. 
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My "manager" is an IT geek, so he's always up for new ideas. Sometimes he likes them, sometimes he doesn't, and he's generally pretty reasonable about it.
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The key to my manager is that all her decisions are made in an instant, any information you add after that is largely ignored.
I was able to scrap an internal web app and re-write it in WPF, but I have not been able to change some things I think obviously need to be changed.
For example:
Couldn't add a lookup table in the database for a column that really needs a lookup table (it's "unique" on the first 3-4 numeric values of the column). I think it would be easier to compare an int...
Couldn't change the way we account for money from "days paid" to dollars. The result is that if you pay for less than half a day we don't give credit for the partial day, and if you pay more than half the day but not the whole day we give credit for a full day.
There are others, but those are my favorites.
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Peter's Principle? Murphy's Law? They're no accident.
Some of those homonids were born and bred by them and for them.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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The manager actually only maintains some control over me because he is director of IT and nothing can get past him without his approval - so I'm forced to comply. And we're talking about a serious control freak, here. I've had completed apps and updates held up eight months to a year because . . . ? Reasons for doing/not doing things change as required to fit the mood.
The general tenor is that whatever I propose - he's against it.
Somehow, through all this, the stuff squeaks through (although I was forced to create an app extension in an all-but-dead language). This is actually harmful to the company as the ability to find support the apps in the future is diminishing.
Hopefully, he doesn't read the CodeProj stuff.
"Aut viam inveniam aut faciam!"
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Well that sucks... 
I've had it fairly well so far, all my managers have been pretty cool (and they don't read CP stuff). They are rather conservative in adopting new technologies, but that is understandable in this country.
Maybe it would be better if your manager does see this, so he'll realize the error of his ways
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Indivara wrote: Maybe it would be better if your manager does see this, so he'll realize the error of his ways
Tacit assumption on your part that he doesn't know what he is doing: he knows full well.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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OK then you'd better start thinking of an alibi
I think I understand your profile picture now...
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Is your manager gay or it is a typo?
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Joan Murt wrote: Is your manager gay or it is a typo?
If your're referring to 'homonid' in the other thread reply I posted:
"A hominid is any member of the biological family Hominidae (the "great apes"), including the extinct and extant humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans." - Wikipedia
He does walk upright and apparently likes girls. On the other hand, he has taken to dressing up quite a bit . . .
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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Joan was referring to the fact you spelt it 'homocide' (should be 'homicide'). 
Cheers,
Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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Ooops!
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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Try a different approach,if you have an idea go and tell him:
"I had an idea but then thought about it again and decided it is bad..."
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Gilad Kapel wrote: Try a different approach,if you have an idea go and tell him:
Classic error on your part: assuming rational behavior, as though bias has nothing to do with decision making.
I am but one of a substantial army who wouldn't shed a tear if he fell out a window - and wouldn't be able to identify anyone who may have helped him fall.
On the other hand, one of his saving graces: he's a full-time ass.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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I think you missed the joke - the implication is that it will work exactly because he is irrational.
The joke is that if you tell him you had a bad idea, he will be all over it, since he doesn't like the good ideas
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If only he had the Groucho Marx "whatever it is, I'm against it" attitude. Then it could be controlled. This is just plain stone-walling.
for(ideas = 0 ;; ++ideas) {
Emails? Unopened.;
To office? I'm busy right now, come back later;
}
Being inside of this, the joke was lost because the whole idea seems to be obstructing as much change as possible . . . and maintaining control, and thus, power.
I think he lost his mind many years ago, do to an accident involving an overdose of Ex-Lax.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
"It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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where is the variable ideas defined?
is it bool?
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ideas is a global defined in the sys namespace.
Don't worry about its type . . . the loop has no exit criteria.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
| "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert
| "It's a sad state of affairs, indeed, when you start reading my tag lines for some sort of enlightenment. Sadder still, if that's where you need to find it." - Balboos HaGadol
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I always speak with my people about the ideas they have... sometimes the ideas are great and sometimes... well sometimes my ideas rock... 
It is plain stupid to think that your ideas are the only ones to be OK... people think and even sometimes the youngest team member give great ideas that are breaking with old fashioned ways to think...
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Actually I find this option rather confusing. Does it mean that I am my own manager because I am self employed / a one-man team, or does it include managing other people as well?
If it is the former, "all my ideas rock" will have little meaning because there's nobody else to provide ideas. If it is the latter, it would be rather conceited and narrow minded<super>* to claim so (but there is no other option...)
* not directed against you
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