He was working on script. Simple one but with an input on insanely large scale of obscure financial data. No one was even sure that data could compute. But it (and he) had no other option except to succeed.
And then the Boss came.
- Hey, why aren’t you working!?
- Wha!?.. I am!
- You don’t! *angrily points to multicolored lines of code on screen* You think I can’t recognize text file when I see it?
I wish this wasn’t real story. :)
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Ha, ha, ha. Just goes to prove that there is no cure for stupidity.
@Lyndi
Well, it’s only mild case off boss being boss. There are worse things that can happen in IT. :)
Man, IT is really full of horror story. I’m a computer engineer so I heard a lot of similar stories. Are you in IT Rarst?
@Ben
>Are you in IT Rarst?
That isn’t obvious?.. lol. I have to work on my geek image. :)
How the hell did he become the boss, anyway?
@nazham
Becoming boss ever had anything to do with IT skills? :)
Welcome to blog and thanks for commenting.
@Rarst: That wasn’t that obvious, even if I suspected it ;) Work on that geek image a little bit hehe