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Earlier Messages From our previous life as Bad-Managers.com... The Messages: I laughed a lot at flapsoft.
You will never know the ritual disembowelling of the poor middle management
by the ego mad 'directors'. Perhaps this affected our sanity? Never
mind it's all like a bad dream now! I was tickled to read your Country of Residence--England, U.K. Is there another England? Enjoyed your page and am passing the URL to others in the training field. Vicky Esse <vicky@hal-pc.org> Houston, Texas, USA - 01:56:01 Saturday 25 July 1998 No comment left Adrian Lobo <loboa@logica.com> London, No county/state, UK - 14:35:27 Wednesday 22 July 1998 I haven't visited in a while and the new color scheme works great! Text is easier to read, and yet the color makes the pages more lively than a mere whitebackground. Great Job! -CJ Christopher J Allen <cjallen@asfoundry.com> Kirtland, OH, US - 19:42:09 Monday 20 July 1998 I am going to pass your site along to a couple of listservs and majordomos so there may or may not be a heavier than usual flow of traffic and hits. Tell you what, I am going to hold off until I hear from you, because I would like to know how much traffic one of my posts is likely to generate. I know of no other better way to track effectiveness, so I hope you will be curious enough to join in this experiement. Dutch Driver Dutch Driver <AskChoragus@yada-yada.com> Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA - 03:38:39 Friday 10 July 1998 Fantastically excellent reading - I have been in 4 IT companies and have found very similar things to you. I think that bad management is very common, not just in the computer industry. My dad is working for a non-computer company and is also treated like an idiot, and has to handle awful management. But, hey, I work because I have to!!! Mark Birkett <mark@statpro.co.uk> Sutton, Surrey, UK - 16:37:41 Thursday 04 June 1998 Only the subject 'Bad Management' deserves a Nobel price!!! Thanks, Geert. Geert Laanstra <laanstra@xs4all.nl> Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands - 07:34:39 Tuesday 02 June 1998 Excellent. Rotten management is the most destructive element to productivity. However you might like to E-mail me for method to reveal the machinations of internal politics and deal with much of the disgusting behavior of negative internal politics. It is in development, so feed back is the motivation, not cash. Regards, Charles Cawley <Gateway.Logic@BTInternet.com> London, London, United Kingdom - 14:03:56 Monday 01 June 1998 Great reading, just the thing I needed while considering to leave the university to earn more money elsewhere. That now may be not as god an idea as I thought? I'll give the URL to a few friends who developed software in larger companies in Germany and hope for more ... C. v. Stuckrad <stucki@math.fu-berlin.de> Berlin, No county/state, Germany - 02:57:55 Monday 01 June 1998 Great reading, just the thing I needed while considering to leave the university to earn more money elsewhere. That now may be not as god an idea as I thought? I'll give the URL to a few friends who developed software in larger companies in Germany and hope for more ... C. v. Stuckrad <stucki@math.fu-berlin.de> Berlin, No county/state, Germany - 02:57:16 Monday 01 June 1998 There are two roles in society where people are expected to do a complex and difficult task involving other people without any sort of training; those roles are Parent and Manager. These are also the roles that are, on the whole, most poorly done and the roles where the most harm is done to innocents just starting out in life. Sigh... Guy Macon <guymacon@deltanet.com> Buena Park, CA, USA - 11:52:47 Sunday 31 May 1998 Your stories about John and his neverending endeavours are truly delicious! Keep on publishing them here! I love them. Jay <jay@cable.vol.at> Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria - 10:06:54 Sunday 31 May 1998 Your stories about John and his neverending endeavours are truly delicious! Keep on publishing them here! I love them. Jay <jay@cable.vol.at> Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria - 10:06:41 Sunday 31 May 1998 Brilliant BodgeCo. Love it. Knowing one of the characters made this a marvellous read. Your next career is bound to be journalistic. Thanks for the laughs. June Adams <rudiju@enterprise.net> London, No county/state, UK - 22:16:44 Tuesday 19 May 1998 Get back from holiday and update your site. You know it makes sense. But remove the sand from your buttocks first. Dino Fancellu <dino@enterprise.netREMOVE> Epsom, Surrey, UK - 16:40:24 Thursday 14 May 1998 A bit too complicated navigation. But these stories I have seen here are beautiful (sorry, I had time to read one only and look at another - maybe I will return here later...). Jerzy Tarasiuk <jt@fuw.edu.pl> Warszawa, No county/state, Poland - 20:16:01 Friday 08 May 1998 Having had bad managers at previous jobs, I empathize with you. This page is probably good therapy for you. My two cents worth: Do please realize that there is a bright side to everything; Even cruddy old cash-cows were at least a step ahead of what was available before they were created. If you believe in what the company is trying to do then by all means stick with them, weird co-workers or not. If you don't care, though, you can't possibly do them or yourself any good. Don't get stuck into a small niche, and make sure you stay up on new technologies, especially COM and ActiveX in the Windows platform. Oh, and read Dilbert; it's therapeutic too. Warren Warren Postma <wpostma@sympatico.ca> London, Ontario, Canada - 04:06:38 Thursday 07 May 1998 I seem to have worked for the same companies you have at one time or another. I had no idea how widespread the subsidiaries of those companies were. They seem to have different names than yours, but I can tell it must be the same crew running them all. That, or it's what they teach in management classes these days... Dean Webb <deanwebb@geocities.com> Dallas, Texas, USA - 00:13:48 Tuesday 05 May 1998 Great web site. Makes me feel like I'm not alone out there with the crap managers. David Cummins <cumminsd@POBox.com.au> Canberra, ACT, Australia - 02:48:17 Tuesday 28 April 1998 Page 4 (probably the most contentious set!) << Back to the Latest Guestbook Messages Want to write an article for Software Reality? Please send me an . |
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