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To calm someone down you have to first connect with them on an emotional level. Mirror whatever emotion he has and state it to him. Only after you have aligned at that level will he be most receptive to your plan.
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Oso Oluwafemi Ebenezer wrote: How do you handle a boss that doesn't want to listen to your explanation and believe he is right!
Tell them one of your jokes.
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Slacker007 wrote: Tell them one of your jokes
I think not! Telling them on The Lounge here always get a particular person irritated because he always downvote and report as abusive or spam. To tell them to the boss, I think not!
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Slacker007 wrote: jokes.
Someones being generous today I see.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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subscribe him to the Dilbert newsletter and then refer him to as PHB
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Learn to negotiate. Negotiation is about give and take. Both parties have to feel as if they're getting a concession out of the deal. If you refuse to listen to him to get "your way" he'll do the same. And in the end he has the most leverage since he's paying you. Once you learn the give and take principle, and ensure he doesn't feel like your treating him like an idiot (he's not either, he figured out how to run a business and pay you), then he'll be a lot more willing to listen. It's people skills man.
Jeremy Falcon
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It's called appeasement. Let him think you agree with his plan, but secretly do it the right way. In the end, he will take credit anyway good or bad.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Smack him with the back of your hand until he sees it, too.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Mouse-over and find the horse:
Clinkle[^]
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Protip: there are two horses....
I like how little effort some of them have put in, kudos to those.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Me too ask myself why someone should make himself an idiot for his company...That's a managers' job...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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"Hey! We're cool, and wacky, and it's a lotta fun to work here" and I hate them all. Except Mike, I like Mike.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Chris Scoville and Lucas Duplan (in the background)...But that maybe a donkey...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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If your meaning of "horse" is an unattractive person, then I see a few in the picture.
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There's someone in a mask - Rage explained the meme to me and kindly linked to one of the most disturbing video's ever 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: find the horse reddit regular
FTFY.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/horse-head-mask[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Nice to see the CFO was the only one who didn't have time to pose for a second picture. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oh, no! He just new that no-one will fire him for that...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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A couple of days after I got hired at my current job, they informed me that the contract required that the person filling the position have a MCDB certification. Well, that cert is no longer offered, so the closest thing to it is MCSA. It's pointless bescause MCSA is a certification for SQL Server 2012, and the database servers were upgraded to 2008 R2 just before I got hired. (this is the reason I said the cert was pointless).
I have no heavy experience with SQL Server, knowing only enough to be slightly less than dangerous, so I suppose we'll see how it goes. I have no interest - and see no value - in getting MS certs, and I see it as nothing but a money grab on the part of MS, so I already have a negative attitude about the whole thing.
In any case, I have to have my cert before the end of November, and I'm scheduled to take the first of three tests on Thursday.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Well, basically I agree with you, but some companies or orgs need it to "judge" the skill, I mean how they know if we have the skill without "that piece of paper" from "some well known" companies or orgs?.
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I largely agree with your sentiments; having a piece of paper does not indicate a level of knowledge - it indicates an ability to pass a test.
Having said that, as long as you are an employee, you will have to work within the confines of your employers requirements.
Since you said, 'the contract requires', that implies that your employer is having constraints put on them as well.
So... pass the test, or look for employment elsewhere, or become the employer; all of which are within your ability to do.
And, I trust you will pass with flying colors.
Tim
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As long as you do not pay for it - do it!
I once done a security clearance check for a project - and that involves a few looooooooooooooooooooooong interrogations (no physical pressure) at the police...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: A couple of days after I got hired at my current job, they informed me that the contract required that the person filling the position have a MCDB certification. Well, that cert is no longer offered, so the closest thing to it is MCSA. It's pointless bescause MCSA is a certification for SQL Server 2012, and the database servers were upgraded to 2008 R2 just before I got hired. (this is the reason I said the cert was pointless).
Just because your employer (your customer?) are living in the stone age doesn't mean that MS is. AFAIK they don't have any certs for W7 any more either despite how many more people are using it than W8.
PS I assume your car refit is finally finished? Before I went on vacation you'd posted a video of your first engine test run; and I couldn't be bothered to read 2 weeks of back posts when I got home; and haven't seen anything posted since.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: I assume your car refit is finally finished? Before I went on vacation you'd posted a video of your first engine test run; and I couldn't be bothered to read 2 weeks of back posts when I got home; and haven't seen anything posted since.
Hmmm, I thought I posted this:
Here ya go[^]
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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