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The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Posts by Rudy
22 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Dec 2009
US Transpo Sec wants air traffic control rebuild in 3 years, asks Congress for blank check
Early mornings, late evenings, weekends. Useless users always demand support
Wednesday 5th February 2025 11:38 GMT
Not just IT
It's not just IT Support people who get this.
I'm a HR manager at a University. One of my team members got a call on a weekend evening at 11:30PM, demanding an employment letter so she could complete her mortgage application before the cut-off time of midnight (in her home country).
I told the employee (a department director) that if she ever did that again, I would report her for gross misconduct. I also gave my team member a bunch of flowers and a (paid) day off.
AI Catholic 'priest' defrocked after recommending Gatorade baptism
Sunday 5th May 2024 11:26 GMT
Gatorade not so implausible
If memory serves, Baptism is one of the two sacraments which can be performed by a member of the laity (the other is Extreme Unction or the Sacrament of the Sick) in an emergency. So, if there was no priest around to perform the baptism, and no water to hand, a layperson using a bottle of Gatorade would probably suffice.
Working from home never looked better: Leopard stalks around Infosys and TCS campuses
Wednesday 17th January 2024 06:05 GMT
Many years ago, all the employees in Education City, Doha, received an SMS message, warning them to stay inside the buildings as there was a tiger on the loose on the campus.
Some hours later, the all-clear was given.
Some further hours later, another SMS came, apologising for the fact that the original SMS was delayed by ONE DAY because the local telco assumed that it was spam, given the sheer volume of identical messages that arrived at the one time.
So yes, there was a tiger on the loose on the campus for a full day and no one knew!
Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week
UK tax authority nudges net 'influencers': You may owe us for those OnlyFans feet pics
World Cup apps pose a data security and privacy nightmare
RISC-V keeps its head down amid global chip war
Terminal trickery, or how to improve a novel immeasurably
UK bus and rail giant FirstGroup looks to replace decade-old Cyborg system in £8m HR and payroll contract
For every disastrous rebrand, there is an IT person trying to steer away from the precipice
Monday 30th November 2020 08:26 GMT
A former Wanger here too. For the launch of Wang Cares, Wang Ireland took delivery of a brochure and some baseball caps, to be sent to all customers during the launch week. I still have my "Wang Cares" cap somewhere.
And the title of the launch week? Why, "Wang Cares Awareness Week", of course!
'Screaming' man fined $149 for singing 'Everybody Dance Now'
EMC/Dell deal respectfully caps the minicomputer age
Steve Jobs, MS Office, Israel, and a basic feature Microsoft took 13 years to install
Email reply-all cat-nado drenches Cisco inboxes with pics, memes
Thursday 17th September 2015 07:24 GMT
Many years ago, I caused one of these storms!
I was working at the time for the Irish branch (small) of an extremely large US company (tens of thousands of employees). The boss of the Irish branch asked me to send all the Irish employees a notification that he was leaving the company.
I, being an idiot, sent it to everyone in the US parent company too.
I was still getting replies when I left two years later.
CRINGE
Biting the hand that feeds IT
