Alternate analysis
...it just drove me crazy seeing him act like a pointy headed boss, of all people.
When I see someone act in a way that I thought that they wouldn't, often I look at what they are doing and why, and see if I can figure out how to understand the behaviour so that it fits.
For instance my image of Barry is that he isn't a PHB, yet he is acting like a PHB. Which leads me to ask if I can understand the behaviour as arising from a non-PHB approach.
In this case I think that I can. So it doesn't bother me. Even though very similar reasoning from someone without a clue would drive me crazy.
The significant difference, of course, being that Barry actually can properly evaluate the skills needed to do the job that he wants done.
Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]