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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5ea968aeb8c7f10d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Do I Really Need A Supervisor? Date: 1997/03/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 225573698 Distribution: world References: <3327438E.942@earthlink.net> <332831DE.6055@elca-matrix.ch> Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <332831DE.6055@elca-matrix.ch> Mats Weber writes: > Auntie Alias wrote: > > >[...] > > > Do you want to see our country field the next > > fighter aircraft ahead of schedule and way under budget? Just get > > rid of most of the supervisors - our country will save billions > > and have better weapons as well. > > Try a job out of the military business. You won't be developping > fighters, but there still is very much interesting stuff to do and the > companies tend to be less hierarchized :-) Don't be so sure. This scenario of Auntie Alias applies to every "big" *commercial* company I have had direct or indirect (i.e., the same sort of lament friends have poured out over a beer about their company) experience of. This is simply BAU in the last decade of the 20th century... /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com