Re: PWRDWNSYS - Trivia

["Alan Cassidy" <acassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey, try working with an IT manager who had been an auditor for on very
major accounting firm (the firm in the doghouse these days..), and very very
non-technical, at a very famous retail chain where I did some work once..

One of the other  contractors, they had him a full month on one simple
project, his supervisor kept coming back with changes. When he turned in his
hours, this auditor demanded he account for a complete accounting of why
they should pay this much over the estimate, without which they were not
going to pay it. Fortunately for him, he said he had previously learned to
document every little thing..

-- Alan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Coulter" <shc@flybynight.com.au>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: PWRDWNSYS - Trivia
...<snip>
>
> P.S. IT Managers are the bane of Operations.  Someone recounted the
> annecdote of one intending to prompt PWRDWNSYS but presssing Enter.  My
> idiot manager pressed the Load button on the S/38 (because the IPL was
> taking too long, or he liked the pretty colour of the Load button -- light
> sky blue as I recall, or something equally lame).
...>
> The same manager also switched off a 9332 drive to 'prove' checksum worked
> which resulted in me buying a set of perspex power switch covers.  He
> thought the system would keep running.  Jeez!
>
> Regards,
> Simon Coulter.
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