h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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The problem is with computer professionals is that they are ultimately under the charge of someone who knows little to nothing about computers. This is a very dangerous situation. For example, a worst case scenario.

If someone who was in charge of spending in a hospital, was to buy sub standard equipment, and was obsessed with the quality of the canteen, or wanted the walls to look nicer, or didnt see why they couldn't have carpets on the ward.

This is what happens when you throw management and computers into the same equation.

But that IS what happens in hospitals in the NHS and it IS what happens in computers. "Good management" and "co,puters" are mutually exclusive

what is it that you do?

ManagementInAction - 2 words or 3????

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definately two

Experience would tend to bear that out.


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I used to "do graphics" for our local Cable TV provider - our most powerful "broadcast" graphics machine over the two-and-a-half years I worked there was an Atari Falcon (Home computer, aimed at the games market), while the department manager had a top-of-the-range Power Mac on her desk, which was only used to run Microsoft Word (infrequently). She was the archetypal manager, in that she was a "Personnel" person, making technical decisions on a purely financial basis... (She took a year to master "drag-and-drop" on the Mac)

See you techie types just make it all too complicated.

It's quite simple Bigger Title, Bigger Salary, Bigger Desk = Bigger 'puter.

You should have sold her on Unix being for 'power users' & she would have been your tech support slave for life.

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A fine plan, with only 2 major drawbacks, for a manager to use UNIX, they would have to remember their password, and also would be devastated by the lack of themes for x-windows. Poor dabs, I have an easy solution, but we would have to find a wall big enough, which is the only problem i can see, but no doubt this would be given to the resources department!!!!!

Try this - stapled the passwords to their heads.....then any one passing can lend a hand and read it to them!

surely thats one of them ....erm.....what do call them.....things that aren't possible.......you know......thingy.....sort of,......like Military Intelligence?

The 3 word version 'management in action' is probably an oxymoron.
The 2 word version 'management inaction' is an observed fact.




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Has anyone ever wondered who saw fi to call Manegers that. What exactly do they manage????

Ah, but lest we forget, it is those managers who definately add an interesting array of useless, stress evoking, spice to our lives.
You wouldn't want life to get boring, would you?