Reminds me of the adage:
Do you want it done now, or do you want it done right?

You can have it done fast, you can have it done cheap, you can have it done right.

Choose two...


-- Tony D.

As I recall, you can't have two.

In any programming project (and this may hold for other types of projects as well) the upper management can pick any two. The task will get done. The other attribute can take up an amazing amount of slack. When upper management tries to set all three, the task will not get done. I have been involved in projects where management tried to set all three. In that case, one or more of the three will give anyway or the project will be canceled. Cheap and well will take a long time. Fast and cheap will produce crap. Fast and well will be expen$sive.

If you pick not well done too often your best engineers will leave in disgust.

I have to explain this to my (old addage, supervisor, or foreman) team leader.......OH, I DO hate PC terms.
He is my fricking boss.....OK?

Anyways.....I have to occasionally remind him that the reason I get a little less work done at times than my dayshift equiv. is that I spend more than a little bit of time redoing her work and many others in addition to mine.

It does not show on the sign off sheet or the time clock.

If I sees a bit of wire hanging out where it should not be, instead of ignoring it and moving on, I get the creeper out, put on my face mask, and get under the truck with a few cable ties and a gun and proceed to rectify the situation.

I just can't live with myself if I see something that is wrong and don't make it right.

It just makes me crazy. It really does. If I see something wrong and I do not correct it, I feel guilty as sin. I could not sleep at night if I knew I left that damned wire sticking out there under the truck. I would haunt me for the rest of my life. So, I take care of it.

He looks at me a bit askance sometimes, but he knows my heart is in the right place. And sometimes, I think he does appreciate my care for my job.

After all, these are trucks that save people's lives......and they will be on duty for many, many years. Some, I suppose, after I have passed.

I see a responsibility to have my way in that they do.

Am I crazy.....yup. In a kitty kind of way.

Every day I have to ask myself WWKD......
What would kitty do?

Meow.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

NO, you're not crazy...that's a sign of professionalism at work......

...hard thing to find these days...........

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Every day I have to ask myself WWKD......
What would kitty do?

If your kitties are anything like mine they would see the wire hanging down, slap it a couple of times, then spend hours trying to get it to come loose.

PS: at my last job I got those trucks after you were finished with them to install radios and intercomms as well as keep all the lights and sirens working. The company also did police cars and ambulances.

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Every day I have to ask myself WWKD......
What would kitty do?

If your kitties are anything like mine they would see the wire hanging down, slap it a couple of times, then spend hours trying to get it to come loose.

PS: at my last job I got those trucks after you were finished with them to install radios and intercomms as well as keep all the lights and sirens working. The company also did police cars and ambulances.

We have a sidestep company that does most of the major military intercom installs.

They sometimes have more wires run though the roof than the fire truck itself needs.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

=)

ahhh...Happy Thanksgiving crunchers *frown* have no wu to crunch *flatlines*...

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I heard through the grapevine that the shipment didn't include power cords.... they'll be an additional $7500.00

When they get it all together they find this one screw was left out...

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I heard through the grapevine that the shipment didn't include power cords.... they'll be an additional $7500.00

When they get it all together they find this one screw was left out...

That was partly coverd by Matt's post in the Tech news that the Servers Rails did not fit.. LOL They have the older non standard racks

So like finding ET, they are always fitting the square peg in the round hole...

Regards

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