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Dr.Walt Fair, PE6-Jun-14 9:19
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Sometimes the real world is even worse, but things tend to even out in the end.

I once was asked to write the justification for a complete engineering computing system to the tune of many millions of US$. Looking at the specs, I realized it could all be done on a PC (actually a 80286 machine back then). My boss went ballistic when I told him I couldn't justify the expenditure, got someone else to write the justification, called me a non-team player, etc.

After a week or two, I thought, maybe I was wrong, so there's only one way to know - write the software and if I can do it, I was right. So I spent about 3 or 4 weeks working on it at home, in the evenings and weekends on my own time, on my own PC and I got it working. So, naive me, I took it to work and proudly showed it off. Big mistake. My boss made me take it off of the company computer, forbid me from using it for my job, and later wrote in my performance evaluation that I worked on worthless projects that the company had no interest in that were outside my job responsibilities.

Well, that just plain pissed me off, so I asked for and got a release of copyright and letters from the company renouncing all rights to the software.

Later, when I left that company, I ended up selling the software commercially and the company bought about 30 licenses to the software and paid full retail price for the software they could have had for free.
CQ de W5ALT

Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software


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