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Earlier Messages

From our previous life as Bad-Managers.com...

The Messages:

FANTASTIC SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have several experiences which I will relate to you when I have time to put finger to keys. Not all of them are from a software scenario, it seems to me coming from a background of electronic engineering that managers are crap no matter what field you are in.

I got so ####ed off with bad managment that I set up my own software company. Allright we may not be in the big league, but we turned over a tidy profit last year and we havent done a single piece of marketing yet. Its all come to us through word of mouth.

Keep up the good work with this excellent site. I promise to send you some of my experiences.

Regards
nick
Nick Sharp <JANsoft Ltd>
Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK - 01:34:56 Saturday 25 April 1998


This is my life, were you to replace Stimpy with a high-school graduate with delusions of god-hood and CrapSoft with a venture-capital firm that thought Objects were best described in data-flow diagrams. I look forward to the next chapter.
Skip Sailors <rsailors@wyoming.com>
Laramie, WY, USA - 17:31:12 Sunday 19 April 1998

Excuse me! but since when has a list of 'Coool!' books not
have both 'Code Complete' and 'Rapid Development' (by Steve
McConnell) listed. This is an oversight that I am prepared
to overlook - for now :)

If you have no idea how to start to define the management
do's then read the above books.

TTFN
Tony Hirst <tony@antonyhirst.source.co.uk>
No town/city, No county/state, No country - 23:09:37 Wednesday 15 April 1998

And another thing...

Matt, why don't you get a message board working. Then a real
dialog can develop. Maybe even some crap managers could add
their 9 bits worth (and then get flamed- tee, hee).

CYA
Tony Hirst <tony@antonyhirst.source.co.uk>
No town/city, No county/state, No country - 23:12:31 Wednesday 15 April 1998

Great stories there...superb! It certainly makes me realise that things here aren't as bad as they seem..too many cowboys around eh?
Dominic Donald <donaldd@logica.com>
London, No county/state, UK - 09:25:45 Wednesday 01 April 1998
Just tried to hack in some html anyway :)
Mr. Salty <eheiden@gwis.com>
Broadview Hts, Ohio, USA Rules!! - 20:12:10 Tuesday 24 March 1998
Hello, Mr. Stephens. I enjoyed visiting your site.
I couldn't help but hear your voice with every sentence
I read. It was sort of a Multi-Media Experience for me :)

Mr. Salty <eheiden@gwis.com>
Broadview Hts, Ohio, USA Rules!! - 20:04:40 Tuesday 24 March 1998

This all sounds very familiar.
Like the Marine page.
Mark Abbot-Cole <mark.abbotcole@bellhow.co.uk>
No town/city, No county/state, No country - 11:50:18 Friday 20 March 1998

You must be a sad manic man, working with computers by day and mucking about with them by night as well.
I have told Glenn that the maun feature in your site is based upon him!!!!!!!
I hope that your trip to the States has been a good one.
See you soon
Steve.
Steve Patterson <You know it>
St Albans, Herts, Here - 15:04:20 Thursday 19 March 1998

Your Crap Managers/Bad Management page is empty! Very disappointing.
Steve Shering <sherings@cardiff.ac.uk>
Cardiff, No county/state, Wales - 08:39:53 Wednesday 18 March 1998

(re. the message above this one):
Err, no it's not. It uses frames though.
You can view the page directly by going to:
http://www.bad-managers.com

Please e-mail me directly with problems related to the site - thanks.

Matt.
Matt Stephens
Kingston, Surrey, U.K. - 14:11:05 Wednesday 18 March 1998


No comment left
G. Craig Johnson
Bellevue, WA, USA - 20:58:54 Tuesday 17 March 1998

The background makes the blue links *very* difficult to read!
No name given <pmorch@nettestca.gn.com>
No town/city, No county/state, No country - 16:44:29 Monday 16 March 1998

Thanks for the comment about the background colour. I've now changed it to make the links easier to read.

Matt.

Matt Stephens <matt@SPAM-I-AM-bad-managers.com>
Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey, U.K. - 14:29:48 Tuesday 17 March 1998

Amusing, but sad, too--does BodgeCo. have a Los Angeles office? I think I may have worked there once, luckily not for 3 years! Why did John stay for so long?
Gerald Kelly <gkelly@primenet.com>
Los Angeles, California, USA - 06:13:22 Saturday 14 March 1998

Matt, some might say (not me, of course) that your page has a slightly negative tone.
In the interest of promoting the positive side to your crusade, here's a good management tip:

Remember that a carrot will always be better than a stick. If a team member doesn't respond to it as an incentive, you can always throw it in their face.
Simon Cooper <simon.cooper@bellhow.co.uk>
Watford, Herts, Chad - 14:31:28 Friday 13 March 1998

Nice site, Matt, but a tad ... er ... blue.

By the way, I've heard a rumour that there are some low down, dirty, rotten liars on the Web. So don't believe everything you read.
Simon Cooper <simon.cooper@bellhow.co.uk>
Watford, Herts, Nepal - 10:33:01 Thursday 12 March 1998

I am sure we are twins separated at birth living in a parallel universe...so how is Mom?

I hope to send you my own tales of horror soon.

cheers,
Peter Bodtke <peter@lifeweb.net>
Verona, New Jersey, US - 01:28:13 Thursday 12 March 1998

Yo, dude, Gravity Sucks.

There's no place to put a link to my groovy website.
And why does it remove HTML? Mine doesn't.
Dino Fancellu <dino@enterprise.netREMOVE>
Epsom, Surrey, UK - 17:16:28 Tuesday 10 March 1998

Not bad! Needs some life breathing into it though (Naked women etc...!)
How much do you pay for this space?
Colin Burrell <colin.burrell@bellhow.co.uk>
Bovingdon, Herts, UK - 17:11:11 Tuesday 10 March 1998



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