From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bdc41aa5ff8e1d93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Programmers -> Engineers; Engineers -> Programmers Date: 1996/08/11 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173579152 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <1996Aug8.115630.4568@relay.nswc.navy.mil> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-08-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4uiuna$4ut@dfw.dfw.net> dweller@dfw.net (David Weller) writes: > 50-0% Stop lying! You're either working at home as > an overpriced consultant (in which case, I > want to know your secret!), or you're already > a manager saying, "I don't do those things to > my employees" (of course, the fact that you're > reading this is probably entirely accidental, You missed one: You and a few other reasonably sane types start your own company. Of course, in this case you may still have to "hit the street" despite being happy about your "Dilbert Factor". Also, it is likely that over time, if you _are_ successful, your Dilbert Factor will go up and at the end of the day you will still be screwed. Still, by then, you may be lucky enough to leave and never have to think about this stuff ever again (fingers crossed!!) > In retrospect, the scale could probably be bigger, but since I don't > get paid by the word like Scott, and since my third Whiskey and Coke > is sapping my creative juices, I'll just close with this comment: Am I > off-topic? In the current devolution of the internet, and news in particular, nothing can possibly be off topic anywhere... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com