AM> The thing about working in a small company that I don't like is how
AM> much you come into contact with "upper" management.  If there's one
AM> thing that really makes me hate the prospect of ever working in a
AM> management position, is the double standards they carry on with to
AM> justify their decisions.  No consistency.

You dont want to think too much about that sort of stuff, you can come
to some very unpleasant conclusions |-)

AM> They'll spend hundreds upon hundreds on new CAD software that only one
AM> person uses, and no one else likes, and dare to suggest that perhaps
AM> we all should be change to it for consistencies sake, but wont spend a
AM> few hundred to get my system suitable for running OS/2 so that all the
AM> DOS apps I run can live in harmony instead of using Windows to do a
AM> job it just isn't meant to do.  They say "well why are you (trying) to
AM> run (some of) them under Windows anyway?

Dont start thinking about just what it means to have the major decisions
like that which have a very dramatic effect on productivity and just the
enjoyability of the work environment, made by fools who dont even have a
slightest grasp of the fundamentals, can get rather demoralising |-)

AM> When I suggest to them that I would probably take twice as long to
AM> debug hardware and software without a multitasking/task swapping
AM> system, they shut up.

Well, atleast thats in improvement on insisting that they know better
and making you do it the silly way. That happens a hell of a lot too and
can be very soul destroying.

AM> The idea of working in an even smaller business such as what the
AM> company used to be like, or maybe even one day running my own business
AM> gets more and more appealing.  But it frightens me that such thoughts
AM> have entered my mind so soon... :( Does working life get any better as
AM> you get older or further up into the "game"?

In some ways it gets worse as some of those fundamentals become more and
more obvious. After a while you can look back over a few years and
realise some of the senior management havent made a single sensible
decision in the whole time you have known them. That doesnt do a hell of
a lot for amicable relations in the future either |-)

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