All you guys are slackers!!!! I work 27 hours a day - 9 days a week and walk 9 miles through the snow, barefoot, uphill both ways ... AND as I think Wally said (from Dilbert) when told that a competing engineer had written a massive application using just ones and zeroes ... "well I wrote an even bigger application and they only let us use the ones!" .... <bg>


>Paul,
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>Hopefully you are just fine!
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>I remember, several years ago, a new VP was hired at a large firm I worked at.
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>People were mightliy impressed that he was ALWAYS there (at work, in his office, all hours of the day or night. No one could beat him in or leave after him, etc.
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>Round about a year later it became evident that there really was nothing happening in his department and, in fact, it was going majorly down hill. He was let go. People were amazed that such a hard working and conscientious person would be let go.
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>I think people have started to realize that it ain't how long you're at work, but what you get done while you're there. I know that there are still bosses who measure it the old way, but they are getting fewer and fewer.
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>And I do think that all of us, when in the midst of an implementation or even getting behind target, should stay back some to get things ticking along once more. But if that is the norm, then there surely is something wrong.
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>Cheers,
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>Jim N
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> >>>>>http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/15/slacker.idg/
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>>'..."My programming staff are 9-to-5ers, and complacency is a big problem," said Paul Garrin, CIO at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, N.J...'
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>>So if I only work the 8 hours I'm being paid for, there's something wrong with me...