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NotPolitcallyCorrect24-Sep-13 5:59

NotPolitcallyCorrect

24-Sep-13 5:59

Mirza Ghalib wrote:
play dumb

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about Blush | :O

Maximilien24-Sep-13 6:04

Maximilien

24-Sep-13 6:04

Mirza Ghalib wrote:
"Ghalib you going to help Tiffany with her new project. Show her the ropes. If the project fails I will hold you responsible".

I would have quit at that point.
Hmmm | :|

I'd rather be phishing!

harold aptroot24-Sep-13 6:30

harold aptroot

24-Sep-13 6:30

I'd see what happens first. It's often an empty threat.

MehGerbil24-Sep-13 7:20

24-Sep-13 7:20

Maximilien wrote:
I would have quit at that point.

And yet he turned it into a promotion.
You've much to learn, young grasshopper.

KP Lee26-Sep-13 10:27

KP Lee

26-Sep-13 10:27

MehGerbil wrote:
And yet he turned it into a promotion.

By intentionally making the project fail no-less! Obviously Blonds DO follow an unfamiliar path in the business world.

ExcellentOrg25-Sep-13 2:09

ExcellentOrg

25-Sep-13 2:09

Whats "dumb"?

Brad Stiles25-Sep-13 2:58

Brad Stiles

25-Sep-13 2:58

Mirza Ghalib wrote:
But, I was on to a good thing. I perfected this to a fine art. I did so well at
it that I was soon promoted.

Your real name wouldn't happen to be Peter, would it...?

Currently reading: "Dead Beat", by Jim Butcher

YSLGuru25-Sep-13 5:33

YSLGuru

25-Sep-13 5:33

<a href="/Members/mirza">@Mirza</a>,

With all due respect you're wrong but only technically.

Ignorance in itself is not power. It's is the knowledge of ignorance, when and how to use it that is power.

Thus the original saying that Knowledge is Power reigns true its just that in this case its the knowledge of how and when to use ignorance that affords power.

ExcellentOrg25-Sep-13 20:13

ExcellentOrg

25-Sep-13 20:13

YSL

======================================================
| Knowledge of Knowledge | No Knowledge of Knowledge |
======================================================
| Knowledge of Ignorance | No Knowledge of Ignorance |
======================================================

There !!! I boxed all your out-of-box thinking.

---
Real programmers don't use pointers... ............ they point fingers ...

YSLGuru30-Sep-13 8:16

YSLGuru

30-Sep-13 8:16

Funny but how is my post "Out of the box" thinking? Is it because my post (unlike trhe rest) was not a dick joke but a serious comment?

Process Mapping

MehGerbil24-Sep-13 4:11

24-Sep-13 4:11

The associate director of my department asked me to attend a meeting wherein my role would be to create a flow chart of the process the other 10 attendees were describing. Both of us had attended a process mapping class together. It was a great opportunity to demonstrate some mad skills.

Of course, the assumption going into the meeting was that there was a process to map.
That was a bad assumption.

After a two hour meeting all I had managed to put together was a sketch of 10 people trapped in a wind tunnel full of paper.

mikepwilson24-Sep-13 4:40

mikepwilson

24-Sep-13 4:40

Yeah, yer gonna have a bad time.

MehGerbil24-Sep-13 5:25

24-Sep-13 5:25

Fortunately I've an associate director who recognized it as a quagmire.
We both backed slowly out of the room.

mikepwilson24-Sep-13 6:25

mikepwilson

24-Sep-13 6:25

NICE! Do good things for that person.

"Managers who understand" are a rare commodity.

Pualee24-Sep-13 4:57

Pualee

24-Sep-13 4:57

Be careful, to compensated for their obvious failure to create a process, you will be on the chopping block for not having adequate qualifications to map said missing process.

Edit: Next time, just draw the cloud.

MehGerbil24-Sep-13 5:26

24-Sep-13 5:26

Any decent class on process mapping will teach an analyst how to properly map the flow of blame.

ExcellentOrg25-Sep-13 2:38

ExcellentOrg

25-Sep-13 2:38

MehGerbil wrote:
Any decent class on process mapping will teach an analyst how to properly map the flow of blame.

Its lame to think that blame flows... blame always flies always first class ...

Rage24-Sep-13 5:13

Rage

24-Sep-13 5:13

This is actually my daily job, and it is quite a difficult task, no matter how smart and consensual the people in the room are.
On a side note, ten people is a lot. I hope you made small groups and made them compare their results at the end of the meeting.

~RaGE();

I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

MehGerbil24-Sep-13 5:27

24-Sep-13 5:27

We didn't invite that many.
Fully half of them were 'ad-ons'.

NotPolitcallyCorrect24-Sep-13 7:33

NotPolitcallyCorrect

24-Sep-13 7:33

MehGerbil wrote:
half of them were 'ad-ons'

You mean half of them were leeches hoping for free meeting coffee and donuts right?

Gregory Gadow24-Sep-13 5:19

Gregory Gadow

24-Sep-13 5:19

MehGerbil wrote:
After a two hour meeting all I had managed to put together was a sketch of 10 people trapped in a wind tunnel full of paper.

The kind of meetings I end up going to would have been a sketch of me trying to juggle ten cats.

MehGerbil24-Sep-13 5:30

24-Sep-13 5:30

Cat Juggling[^]

Gregory Gadow24-Sep-13 10:29

Gregory Gadow

24-Sep-13 10:29

Wrong, on too many levels. Laugh | :laugh:

NotPolitcallyCorrect24-Sep-13 5:21

NotPolitcallyCorrect

24-Sep-13 5:21

MehGerbil wrote:
flow chart of the process

Well it's really difficult to flow chart a Charlie Foxtrot to begin with. 2 hours is not enough time.