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From: "Michael Hartsough" <Michael-Hartsough@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: Converting Ada Tasks To VxWorks Tasks?
Date: 2000/04/16
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"Robert Dewar" <dewar@gnat.com> wrote in message
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> In article <xEZJ4.334$d21.35336@elnws01>,
>   "Michael Hartsough" <Michael-Hartsough@mediaone.net> wrote:
> h
> > Won't work. Official policy is that nobody's indispensible.
> > especially an Ada & Multitasking Advocate.  ;^)
>
> A bit off topic, but I really feel like making a comment on
> this point. I agree that any company should have an official
> policy that no one is indispensable, and should orient the
> structure of development according to this point. After all
> if an indispensable person is in a fatal accident, the company
> can be very seriously impacted.

To digress even further....

I believe that the reason my employer has this policy is to
prevent people from "extorting" them with job offers from other
places in attempts to get a counter offer to retain them.

They fear that if they try to retain someone by making a
counter offer it'll start an avalanche of people coming in with
job offers.

We have a large number of people who are single-points
of critical knowledge whose loss would be extremely costly.
But our management has such an intense focus on the near-term
bottom line that they would never add people to a project for the
sole purpose of spreading the knowledge. This is also the reason
for dropping Ada altogether and switching to C. "Ada compilers
are too expensive" (etc., we've heard it all before).