Way back when I was an employee and not self employed, I had a boss, the IT director, who called a meeting of the department, about 25 people, and told everyone to stop doing any more work. He said he wanted other departments to "feel the pain." He had been denied a request to hire more staff and this was his way of retaliating. The fact is only 4 or 5 out of the 25 were doing any work anyway.

So you see there are all kinds of weird ones out there!


>I was talking with some of the employees at a relatively new contract I have and they said that the boss (not exactly pointy-haired, but close) told them that they shouldn't look for answers for Foxpro issues on UT because it was a waste of their time; they should already know the answer or ask their coworkers or look it up in the help. I have been using UT as an extension of all the books, help and coworkers on site. He knows this, but never says anything to me as he sees the level I'm producing at. I think I would still be coding in FPW if it hadn't been for this environment. I'm curious if others have seen similar issues with management views on using internet (or UT specifically) as an ongoing Foxpro resource for their jobs. In some defense of the boss, I will say that it is addictive and I spend a certain amount of time (won't say how much) checking stuff out that has nothing to do with a current problem or even relevant to the department's projects. I still firmly believe that
>the client is better off for what I have learned to resolve issues, but I don't know...a little bit of contractor guilt going on perhaps...
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>Regards, Renoir