RE: Impressing your boss
- From: "Goulet, Dick" <DGoulet@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <BSpears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:51:06 -0400
Brian,
As I hear it that company was known for unintelligible
mumbo-jumbo which caused the resulting troubles.
What should you do to impress your boss? Nothing. You got the
job didn't you? Therefore you've already impressed him/her. Now get on
with what they hired you for, a nice stable, predictable, and error free
database. In our profession sometimes "silence is golden".=20
Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA
Oracle Certified 8i DBA
-----Original Message-----
From: Spears, Brian [mailto:BSpears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 12:06 PM
To: ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Impressing your boss
I (and about 5 other DBA's) spent about a year trying to get management
to stop believing a Hollywood style developer...mumbo jumbo coming out
of his ears. He impressed the boss till about a year later when all the
mumbo jumbo proved to be false and without any substance. The company
waisted 1/2 million on this mumbo jumbo. The company was enron.=20
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Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 11:30 AM
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Subject: Re: Impressing your boss
managers love metrics. Come up with some completely irrelevant
statistics to do a 'db health check'. Show that these numbers are
horrible. Then make some completely irrelevant change and show your boss
the same irrelevant metrics and proclaim that the db is now healthy.=20
Spit out some archaic and jumbled techno-babble so that noone has any
idea what you are talking about(they will assume you are smart, because
only smart people talk like that).=20
this actually works... its also useful to get managers to go away when
they get annoying.=20
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