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you know sometimes...but heres a friday afternoon story.

I was working in an office where a large web servcies project was being developed. It was under budget ahead of schedule. A new manager came in, saw this and deemed it a "risk".
He then moved the highly regarded lead technical bloke off (lets call him "Mr Respected"), hired a new lead technical chap and a few more programmers.

Can anyone guess what happened? Yes indeedy.

It lagged, got delayed and all messed up.

It was all not cool and the new lead technical chap - lets call him "Mr No mates" said to me that he didn't care and he would just blame Mr Respected when the wash out came.

So I'm mates with Mr Respected. and i filled him in on this titbit and he was able to protect his cred' accordingly.

The long and the short of it was that the project was late, over budget and incomplete. Ahh lets not forget the angry customer.

Mr Respected remained (eventually left a few years later), Mr No Mates was canned shortly thereafter.

The manager responsible for the mess? Just bounced around the org until he eventually left for another company.

Now drink your milk and go to bed kiddies.

Bryce
MCAD
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