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I was given a tour of our local Royal Mail Sorting Office the other day.
I asked the guy taking the tour "What's that machine?"
"That, Sir, is the Acme 3000 Auto Sorter System. It can sort 150,000 letters an hour and it's 99.9% accurate.
It's controlled by 12 supercomputers, each of which is 5000 times more powerful than an average desktop PC.
It has over 15,000 state-of-the-art optical location identification sensors, contains enough circuit boards to entirely cover the pitch at the new Wembley stadium and it has 200 miles of fibre-optic cable.
It took five years and over £100 million to develop," he boasted proudly.
"What happens to the letters after it's finished sorting them?" I asked.
"We give them to a bloke on a push bike."
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Since your a newbie here  I will point out there is a Joke icon. Yes the Subject is POJOTD but ....
If it was not for the 12 supercomputers it would be hard to tell it was a joke as it sounds like how things are done in the USA, except it would be a push cart not a bike. 
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djj55 wrote: If it was not for the 12 supercomputers it would be hard to tell it was a joke as it sounds like how things are done in the USA
I've also seen MiB3, so I know how the letters get sorted in the US... 
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WASSAILING
Two in a row!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Two in a row!
aka 'Lunch'
speramus in juniperus
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So true.
3 in a row........had pudding as well
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Drinking their health
as a naval man did earlier perhaps? WAS SAILING
WASSAILING
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at least i got the was!
but i actually dont understand that game :/
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So as the subject states, how often do you take the initiative in your company? When you see a problem with a process or a way in which you think you can improve the codebase / system / application do you speak to someone higher up not with just a complaint but a resolve to fix this?
I do and quite often if I can think of a suggestion as an improvement, when I was less experienced and more naive this used to be often without enough thought however now I go through my own little process to decide if I should talk to someone about an improvement. Will this help the company? Is it just me who thinks this? Is this proccess costly (performance, exspense etc) etc.
So once again the question;
How often do you take the initiative in your company?
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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It's my job to take initiative, to find improvements (but not necessarily to implement them).
So I do it every day a several time...
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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I must say that sounds like a brilliant job, though hard also? Is it mainly for one company or do you do consultant based work?
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I do it for the same company for over 15 year, and still interesting...
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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All the time.
Be it Accounts based, Tech or Administrative it is my job to be on top of it.
Proactive (how I hate that word) Management it is called.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Proactive (how I hate that word) Management
How about "Thinking Ahead"?
speramus in juniperus
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I always prefered "Drive" or "Driven" though marketing and sales always manage to ruin a word by repeating 50,000 times.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Everytime. when a new project comes. I take it or forced to take alternatively. 
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All the time. Nature of the job.
At 3am when the power failed, in the middle of the north sea, there isn't usually a lot the people above can do!
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DaveAuld wrote: there isn't usually a lot the people above can do!
Don't be rude, they'll be more worried than you! What if there was a loss of...
...money?
speramus in juniperus
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Yes most of the time but mainly technology related. And good think is my company doesn't ignore my suggestions. Most of the time they implement it. Or I should say I implement it and they pay for it.
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Every minute - I am steering the company towards understanding that we need specifications(all the work is internal work).
The advantage is I have a very large creative input - the bad part is the 'can you shift this to the left half a pixel', then the next week 'can you shift this to the right one quarter of a pixel'.
I am lucky to have very understanding, patient and intelligent customers which makes my job enjoyable
I err on the side of preferring having lots of creative input.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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It is a part of my job, as others have already said. I do research and proof of concept prototype design. We also do quite a bit of improvisation when it comes to getting the bits and pieces of software and hardware to work together. Initiative is a requirement to do what we do.
I think software in general needs people who take the initiative, many times management has no clue how to implement software and take the "does it work?" and "just make it work" approach.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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More often than I'd like, as odd as that sounds.
But when you see a carload of drunks heading full tilt boogie towards a brick wall at 120mph, you've got to say SOMEthing, if only so you can work in peace.
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mikepwilson wrote: a carload of drunks heading full tilt boogie towards a brick wall at 120mph,you've got to say SOMEthing
I would say WOW! Did you just see that!? Hopefully they are all lawyers.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I tried twice:
1. To save hundreds of pages of printout each comprising 5 or 6 line URLs sent to every employee of the company. On average 5 pages per mailing every fortnight. When I suggested that putting this information on our intranet website and sending an email with a link, the response was, "we will take it under advisement": AKA you are a foreign no nothing, please don't tell us how to do our job.
2. I tried to explain to our management why the project I was working on was not being managed properly, and how the technical documentation was not clear enough for the developer (me) to produce a working system. Much the same response, i.e shut up and do your job.
Lesson learned, keep your mouth shut and your head down.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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