Re: not enough real programmers? (was Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986)

[hshubs@mindspring.com (Howard S Shubs)]

In article <7oln21$6dq$0@216.39.144.179>, Victoria Welch <vikki@oz.net> wrote:

>I was struck speechless.  It took a while for me to figure out that it
>wasn't just exhaustion and stress, but he actually did say that to me. 
>Very little surprises me anymore, that one did.

I've figured out what gets me about this guy.  Even a slimey sales person
knows better than to blatently state that, so the worst sales person was
better than this guy.  What -this- guy was, was a con man.  Con men don't
give a rat's ass about others, don't see how they destroy the basic
underpinnings of civilization, which is based on trust, and should be
expelled on sight IMO.


>He has enough $$$$ to just replace it, not a big deal.

Still, the idea -might- get through, especially if you had a big gun to
back you up. <grin>  (NOTE GRIN!)


>I think he has gotten away with this kind of thing for so long and made
>so much money doing it that he doesn't see anything wrong with what he
>does.  He gets "respect from his peers" (sure as hell none from his
>subordinates) and significant financial renumeration, so what could be
>wrong with what he does?  Carefully ignoring the bodies in his trail.

I doubt he -sees- the bodies in his trail, or maybe he doesn't see them as
bodies.


>(and would be frowned on by the local constabulary).

Details.


>yells at me "When I tell you to
>hop, you damn well better hop NOW".  Problem?  He was trying to get wall
>box holes cut in the wall and couldn't manage it (No, I didn't laugh in
>his face at that point, I was more than a little *issed).

He was your boss?  Your boss is the only one who should feel free making
that statement, IMO.  Anyone else should just be ignored.  I want to try
that some time, just to see what happens.  I expect to have enough in the
bank just in case something nasty happens. <grin>
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