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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736494 More actions · Answer 1

jcrawf02 (10/12/2010)
At the risk of encountering a porcine missile, have you ever heard of earplugs? 😀

I have found that single rooms are the best earplugs 😛

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 2

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/12/2010)
jcrawf02 (10/12/2010)
At the risk of encountering a porcine missile, have you ever heard of earplugs? 😀
I have found that single rooms are the best earplugs 😛

Until the all-night con party decides to move into his room just before he shuts the door. @=)

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 3

Hi folks, I'm really stuck on this one.

Can any of you jump in and clear the fog?

It's a strange thing IMHO, sure beyond my knowledge.

-- Gianluca Sartori

jcrawf02 SSC-Insane Points: 24198 More actions · Answer 4

Gianluca Sartori (10/12/2010)
Hi folks, I'm really stuck on this one.
Can any of you jump in and clear the fog?
It's a strange thing IMHO, sure beyond my knowledge.

I'm not sure that anybody jumping in (cough* Paul *cough) cleared any fog there, but I got derailed from the imagery of this comment:

and he's no thicky pants

...Not sure what a 'thicky pants' is, but I'm unsettled...

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 5

Gianluca Sartori (10/12/2010)
Hi folks, I'm really stuck on this one.
Can any of you jump in and clear the fog?
It's a strange thing IMHO, sure beyond my knowledge.

I think instead of clearing the fog, we've managed to make it denser. :w00t:

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 6

jcrawf02 (10/12/2010)
I'm not sure that anybody jumping in (cough* Paul *cough) cleared any fog there...

I started off with good intentions, but it kinda got away from me 😀

jcrawf02 (10/12/2010)
...but I got derailed from the imagery of this comment:
and he's no thicky pants
...Not sure what a 'thicky pants' is, but I'm unsettled...

+1

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spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 7

WayneS (10/12/2010)
I think instead of clearing the fog, we've managed to make it denser. :w00t:

Agreed.

-- Gianluca Sartori

spaghettidba SSC Guru Points: 105732 More actions · Answer 8

Paul White NZ (10/12/2010)
jcrawf02 (10/12/2010)
I'm not sure that anybody jumping in (cough* Paul *cough) cleared any fog there...
I started off with good intentions, but it kinda got away from me 😀

Naaahhh, you knew from the start that you would have blown some minds! 😛

jcrawf02 (10/12/2010)
...but I got derailed from the imagery of this comment:
and he's no thicky pants
...Not sure what a 'thicky pants' is, but I'm unsettled...
+1

+2

-- Gianluca Sartori

Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150468 More actions · Answer 9

WayneS (10/12/2010)
I think instead of clearing the fog, we've managed to make it denser. :w00t:

Ah I see that thread is fully doomed now - Chris Morris has arrived :w00t:

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 10

After a meeting this morning there are several things that I would love to rant about at length. However it might get ugly. Hence I will restrain myself to three things.

1) #$^&*%!@%^%$#*(&*^#@!@(%@&_^&$%^#$#@$#@#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2) Consultants are not there to be your scapegoats

3) Stabbing your team members in the back (figuratively) is not a good way of advancing your career. It doesn't take long for people to figure out what's happening and when they do they will hate you forever.

Gail Shaw
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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 11

Brandie holds out virtual chocolate-covered biltong. "I hear it makes everything better."

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173080 More actions · Answer 12

Another .sig-worthy quote.

Chris Morris-439714 (10/12/2010)
Never mind what the book says, what happens when you use it in anger against 75 million rows?

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Sioban Krzywicki One Orange Chip Points: 27770 More actions · Answer 13

GilaMonster (10/12/2010)
After a meeting this morning there are several things that I would love to rant about at length. However it might get ugly. Hence I will restrain myself to three things.
1) #$^&*%!@%^%$#*(&*^#@!@(%@&_^&$%^#$#@$#@#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2) Consultants are not there to be your scapegoats
3) Stabbing your team members in the back (figuratively) is not a good way of advancing your career. It doesn't take long for people to figure out what's happening and when they do they will hate you forever.

I wish more people understood #2 to be true. I was once hired for that specific purpose. The "manager" gave me some simple SQL stuff to start out and waited until the contract was 3/4 over before dumping a huge project on me. I told him I didn't have enough time left to do the project (2 weeks on a very short contract) and he told me to do it anyway. I told him I needed access to the code and databases on the server and he wouldn't give it to me.

1 week later he asked how it was coming along. I told him it wasn't for the very reasons I'd stated before. He replied (he had an audience this time) that I should have said something. I responded that I had and went on to recount the entire conversation we'd had about it. He got red in the face, dismissed the audience and fired me in private. I'm pretty damn sure I was hired specifically as a scapegoat for this project.

Later I ran into someone else who'd worked for him. Apparently he's widely recognized to be a miserable manager.

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TomThomson SSC Guru Points: 104773 More actions · Answer 14

WayneS (10/12/2010)[/b]

I think instead of clearing the fog, we've managed to make it denser. :w00t:[/quote]

I dunno if the fog's denser, but after reading the thread I'm pretty sure I am. :crying:

Tom

SQLRNNR SSC Guru Points: 281334 More actions · Answer 15

GilaMonster (10/12/2010)
3) Stabbing your team members in the back (figuratively) is not a good way of advancing your career. It doesn't take long for people to figure out what's happening and when they do they will hate you forever.

Pulling knife from back - I know what you mean.

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