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New Dilbert moment
In a meeting with:

1) Recently promoted Windowsy programmer - now a project / department manager. I actually hired him years ago when we needed a windows guy.

2) MF programmer / subject matter expert in the old system, to be primary programmer / power user in new environment.

#1 and #2 are in charge of formulating the needs of the system since it is replacing their current MF based workflow.

3) Executive "advisor".

Meeting is wrapping up.

I had just spent the last hour describing a previous system I had written, going through the data flow and some screen shots of the front-end app.

#1 says warm fuzzy things about going forward to the next step. Says something that strikes me a particularly Dilbertish.

I GRIN.

He look at me: What?!

I reply: Sorry, I just flashed on a Dilbert comic.
#1 - I hope I'm not the PHB!
Me: Nope, worse. You're the marketing director.


#2 quotes the punch-line.


Tell me what you can do so I can tell you what I want.
New What was the punchline?
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
New Tell me what you can do so I can tell you what I want.
     Dilbert moment - (broomberg) - (2)
         What was the punchline? -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1)
             Tell me what you can do so I can tell you what I want. -NT - (broomberg)

And it's like that.
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