DealMonkey
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Originally posted by: Bowfinger
I once had a boss who prided himself on being decisive. He was completely incompetent. He loved to make decisions -- now -- whether he had enough information, whether his information was accurate, whether he needed to make a decision then or not. And, once he made a decision, he stuck to it no matter how much new information was presented. He was decisive, you see, and decisive people stick to their decisions, no matter how bad they might be.Originally posted by: CADkindaGUY
Originally posted by: Moonbeam
What you are, Caddy, is a wind up robotic fensing machine. We put in a nickle and watch you refute any point. Mr. Robo Rebuttal at your service.
Nah - It's just fun to see people squirm sometimes I think alot of what is wrong in America today is that people don't know how to make up their mind and look to others to make their decisions and opinions for them. I certainly am NOT a robot - You just mistake my decisiveness as being such. It's all in your perspective though. How's that mirror moony?
CkG
He first got into IT as a VB programmer, and, like everyone else, he played with PCs at home. He therefore considered himself an expert on enterprise-level applications and infrastructure. He had no actual technical experience at that level, but that didn't deter him. Any time a decision got escalated to his level, we could count on him making a poor one. He cost us several million dollars in wasted effort and equipment.
My staff hated him, of course. I did my best to keep decisions away from him, but that has its own dangers. I finally caught on to the trick to manipulating him: get his ear first. Nine times out of ten, he latched on to the first thing he heard. Much easier to make quick decisions that way.
Hmmmmm. There's a moral to that story, Bow. I wonder if anyone will notice? Nah.