this ws typical of tom bannach.... he even says in his resume that he trained engineer's ...
what a bunch of BUll ShIT..
read a book by Ann RAnd.. Atlas shrugged, or the fountainhead..
written 30 years ago.. a story .. of how .. "Do Nothing people survive in corporate life..
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Atlas Shrugged is a novel by Ayn Rand, first published in 1957 in the United States. It was Rand's last work of fiction before concentrating her writings exclusively on philosophy, politics and cultural criticism.
At over one thousand pages in length, she considered it her magnum opus.[1] Also, at approximately 645,000 words, Atlas Shrugged is one of the longest novels ever written in any European language. The book explores a number of philosophical themes that Rand would subsequently develop into the philosophy of Objectivism.
A poll revealed that Atlas Shrugged was voted the most influential book in readers' lives after the Bible.[2][3
Ass-Kisser Promoted
PROVIDENCE, RI—The age-old practice of brown-nosing was rewarded yet again Monday with the promotion of ass-kissing toady Howard MacInnis, an assistant district account manager for the consulting firm of Hayes, Murdoch & Fenn, to the position of regional manager.
MacInnis, 33, a longtime sweet-talker known for his tenacity and perseverance in the boot-licking field, received a 15 percent salary increase as well as a corner office and an upgraded luxury-model company car as part of the promotion, which he calls "the culmination of an intensive campaign of shameless glad-handing and insincere admiration that I have been pursuing in earnest for more than four years."
Said MacInnis, "There were those who said that my lack of original ideas and relentless flattery of superiors would hold me back. But I am living proof that fawning yes-men do succeed in this world."
A Software Engineer Named Tiny
Talk about wasting time on the job.
Tiny has got to be the king of pissing away hours every day doing absolutely nothing in the area while he's on the clock.
He's also a master of charging the company for mass hours of overtime each week that he didn't work. It's amazing nobody has caught on to his scheme yet, Tiny has been able to easily get away with ripping the company off for a very long time.
I get the feeling he knows what he is doing is wrong but he's deliberately trying to stall Mini-Rel projects from the R&D labs anyway just so he can cash in.
I don't know how to handle this. The Mini-Rel test area could be turned around and back on schedule in a few days if Tiny wasn't here. I'm convinced of that.
Tiny is a kiss ass supreme,
I mean he should get a medal for being one of the smoothest liars I have ever run across when it comes to snowjobbing supervisors.
I will give him credit for that.
He has management's ear so if I try to approach the boss about this situation it will probably backfire on me.
At the same time though Tiny's antics are so disgusting I'm having a difficult time watching him get away with this crap.
For now, I guess I'll just fuck with him a whole bunch and see if maybe he snaps out of it.
Two days ago Tiny announced to me we needed more shelving for storage.
I disagreed and told him he should start sharing whatever drugs he's on with me because he is so completely high.
We've already got tons of storage space for work in progress and supplies like instrument covers. In fact there are so many shelf units going unused right now that a nice layer of dust has formed on them. Regardless of my protests
Tiny went scouring around Building 2 hallways with heavy tools to unbolt a few ten foot tall shelf units and then drag them back to our department.
I half-heartedly helped him get the first of his extra shelves while reminding him that I could have been spending my time more wisely in the E-lab or working the chambers. It was a feeble attempt to make him feel guilty.
The second afternoon of extra shelf mayhem I gave up on him and just let him do his thing. He was going to do it anyway.
Today I came in to work and found him sitting in front of a Combo Mod station at one of the chambers that had seized up.
As usual everything was exactly where I had left it the night before, Tiny didn't do a damn thing to help move instruments forward in the test process.
At the Combo Mod rack Tiny was busy tapping away on the station's keyboard altering lines of software code. He had a look of seriousness on his brow while he edited code. Out of curiosity I asked him how long he had spent being a code monkey trying to fix the station.
At least three or four hours, was his response. I practically blew my stack.
See, Tiny is only an electronic technician here and not even a very good one at that.
He knows little to nothing about software code. I was instantly worried his code tinkering might have made the downed station even worse.
I have a policy that if I cannot fix a problem on my own in a reasonable amount of time then it obviously requires more skilled help from an appropriate resource. Say for example if I had been the person to discover that Combo Mod station had jacked itself up I would methodically go over about an hour's worth of troubleshooting. By then I would have it narrowed down to a software issue or a hardware issue.
At that point it's time to pick up the phone and call engineering to have the experts come out and deal with it. Ultimately this saves everybody a whole heap of trouble. Tiny just can't get with it.
I guess he thinks he's some sort of software engineer all of a sudden. Idiot.
Maybe by next Tuesday he'll finally call someone who actually knows how to fix this shit.
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