Requirements: Dancing Pigs

March 4, 2008 on 12:34 pm | In General Nonsense | Write a Comment

(10:44:12 AM) J: management, as usual, has no fucking clue whats going on
(10:44:36 AM) J: and thinks that if they force their employees to fill out timesheets on everything in detail that it will a) help them know whats what and 3) increase productivity
(10:46:23 AM) Bill: without getting involved themselves, the only thing they’ll learn is that people 1) fudge their timesheets and C) waste a lot of time fudging timesheets
(10:49:21 AM) J: :D
(10:49:43 AM) Bill: do you have any anti-fudging mechanisms in there?
(10:50:37 AM) J: they wouldn’t give me time
(10:50:41 AM) Bill: haha
(10:51:01 AM) J: the basic functionality they wanted was sick and this fucking douchbag vp was like ‘this form should only take like 3 hours’
(10:51:05 AM) J: for who?
(10:51:08 AM) J: someone in time warp?
(10:51:16 AM) J: fuck you asshat
(10:51:45 AM) Bill: they’d probably love you if the timecard provided details like “tuesday 1hr suchandsuch task changed to 2 hrs on friday at 5:15pm”
(10:52:12 AM) Bill: the form only took 3 hours, but the validation, the queries, and business logic, unit testing and deployment took two weeks
(10:54:16 AM) Bill: “J, why did you fudge your timesheet on Friday?” Wha? “I see it says here that you changed the work you did on Tuesday’s suchandsuch from 1 hours to 2 hours.. but you changed it on Friday. Why?” Uh… “FIRED!” *towards the door* “NEXT!!”
(10:56:15 AM) Bill: “Ok Bill, welcome. You only worked on one task all week but you have *flips stack of paper* 25 sheets of timecard modifications. In fact, the timecard app shows you were logged into it and active for 6 hours a day…
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Why the turtle really won the race

March 4, 2008 on 12:10 pm | In General Nonsense | Write a Comment

I changed jobs recently and have been rewarded with an even longer commute. It’s about 81 miles each way. There really isn’t any way to speed it up short of launching myself on a rocket. Instead of interstate highways, I now take several US highways and State Roads to get to work.

I see a lot of roadkill! Cats, dogs, turkeys, armadillos—you name it. I even saw a pelican carcass once, hanging upside down from a power line. This morning a huge turtle was crossing a 4-lane divided highway. Cars were swerving around him at 50mph as he held his head out high to get a good view.

Then it occurred to me: People will flatten all kinds of cute, furry and feathery animals; but if there’s a turtle in the road someone is much more likely to stop and pick it up, helping him along his way.

And that’s how the turtle really won the race.

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