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06-01-2005, 05:07 PM
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Now it's official...
Just one more reason to E-R...
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06-01-2005, 05:28 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Re: Now it's official...
"people so stupid they can barely find their way from the parking lot to their office"
I used to ask people every once in a while "Do you even know how you got here today?" 
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Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful. Just another form of "buy low, sell high" for those who have trouble with things. This rule is not universal. Do not buy a 1973 Pinto because everyone else is afraid of it.
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06-01-2005, 06:26 PM
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Re: Now it's official...
I had the joy of working for a combination ... an idiot who tried to screw up my life...
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Often uninformed, seldom undecided.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
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06-01-2005, 07:09 PM
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Re: Now it's official...
Unfortunately we still have to deal with them at some level.
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06-01-2005, 08:23 PM
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Re: Now it's official...
And that's ANOTHER reason to be self-employed if you have to work.* One of my employees (college grad) make a stupid mistake copying numbers from a sheet of paper to the computer.* I found the mistake, told her to re-enter them again.* She came back with the SAME mistake PLUS another mistake.* I told her it's just COPYING and to enter it AGAIN and to check her work.* It came back with those 2 mistakes corrected, but with another similar mistake.* YOU'RE FIRED!!! 
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06-01-2005, 11:46 PM
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Re: Now it's official...
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Originally Posted by dory36
I had the joy of working for a combination ... an idiot who tried to screw up my life...
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They're either industrious or lazy, and they're either smart or idiots.
You'll work hard for a industrious smart boss, but you'll learn a lot (especially when they have to delegate) and you'll feel like you're saving the world while you're working for them.
You might work hard for a lazy smart boss because you'll have it all delegated into your lap. You'll feel like you're saving the world all by yourself because no one is helping. The trick is to make supervising you just enough work for the boss that they decide to find a way to delegate the work out of your division and onto someone else.
You'll never work hard for a lazy idiot boss. They don't know what to do and they don't know how to get anyone else to do it for them. Unfortunately it's hard to hide this situation from higher management and it never lasts long.
The most feared boss of all is the industrious idiot. They'll go everywhere trying to do everything, no matter how senseless, and you'll endure several swings of the pendulum before regaining the status quo (minus a lot of resources like budget & sleep)...
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06-02-2005, 07:23 AM
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Re: Now it's official...
Well you either work with idiots or your boss (in my case) was a:
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06-02-2005, 07:48 AM
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Re: Now it's official...
You worked for a brown horse?
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No man is free who is not master of himself. --- Epictetus
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06-02-2005, 08:05 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Re: Now it's official...
What, an animal with no fruit??
I feel that my primary function at work is to give them what they want, not what they ask for...
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06-02-2005, 09:52 AM
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Re: Now it's official...
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You worked for a brown horse?
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Who hasn't?
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06-02-2005, 11:39 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Re: Now it's official...
Just the south end.
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06-02-2005, 01:17 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Re: Now it's official...
As I frequently say to my wife after we've seen someone do something truly stupid or offensive...frequently because it happens quite often "The good news is without stupid people we wouldnt be doing so well".
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Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful. Just another form of "buy low, sell high" for those who have trouble with things. This rule is not universal. Do not buy a 1973 Pinto because everyone else is afraid of it.
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06-02-2005, 02:33 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Re: Now it's official...
Yes, the bell curve makes me look downright intelligent.
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