>>Somewhere, there is a guy who connected the first night he took the PC home and tried to dial in. I hate that guy.
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>I think you missed some things.
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>About that guy. He probably works as a consultant at $400 per hour and bounces from business to business doing almost nothing. And when he does something it's to make things crash. But that is not important because it's always at the end of his contracts and he's always able to make it look like the problems were created by others. So he bounces from companies to companies creating chaos but never has problems.
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>Ohh I almost forgot. He also has a really cool resume. Because Mr. Teflon always works for big enterprises and he's really the nicest guy to work with. He does'nt know much but he's a nice guy. For many enterprises that can get somebody a long way. Have a nice suit be nice and don't make waves.
In the same vein

I'm just coming to the end of some work (everything delivered on time and a specified) customer very happy so I'm looking for more work (thats fine). Another developer is being retained (more work for him) because even though his project is astronomically over budget and time the firm can't afford to let him go before its finished because it will compromise the money spent so far. Truly Dilbert is alive and well.

This led me and some others to think about managers/developers who by letting projects go badly wrong can then firefight and be dynamic raising their profile in the business and getting promoted.

Nick MAson

Nick Mason