In a message to Anthony about Comment From Dieter, Alan said:

AM>I happened across a navy guy earlier in the year when I bought some
AM>simms off him - Mark Farnan I think.  Lived with a bunch of other navy
AM>guys too, in Artarmon.  Strange people... ;)

AW> Whispering Jack! He's a fully paid up member of my fan club. In
AW> fact I think he's the number one member ;-)

Whispering Jack?  You mean he has a quiet voice like many people?  How
terrible!

AW> There are definitely morning and evening people. Unfortunately the
AW> blokes in the Navy were neither.

ROFL

AW> I've never worked in a flexible work situation such as yours, so it's
AW> hard to disagree with someone who's had first hand experience. I bite
AW> pretty well normally, but I've got most of the QPF agro out of my system
AW> at the moment. Bitching about things in here and in Avtech tends to be a
AW> good form of therapy.

;)

AW> I like my job as well, but aspects of it annoy the hell out of me.
AW> I hate the sick day rorters, and the timesheet rorters. I'm always
AW> getting castigated for "losing hours" on the flex sheet. They seem
AW> to think it would be better for me to have 2.5 hour lunch breaks
AW> towards the end of the month simply to use up the hours. That's
AW> simply ridiculous, and is a typical public service attitude.

Yeah, I have the time sheet blues too.  The thing about working in a
small company that I don't like is how much you come into contact with
"upper" management.  If there's one thing that really makes me hate
the prospect of ever working in a management position, is the double
standards they carry on with to justify their decisions.  No
consistency.  They'll spend hundreds upon hundreds on new CAD software
that only one person uses, and no one else likes, and dare to suggest
that perhaps we all should be change to it for consistencies sake, but
wont spend a few hundred to get my system suitable for running OS/2 so
that all the DOS apps I run can live in harmony instead of using
Windows to do a job it just isn't meant to do.  They say "well why are
you (trying) to run (some of) them under Windows anyway?  When I
suggest to them that I would probably take twice as long to debug
hardware and software without a multitasking/task swapping system,
they shut up.  The idea of working in an even smaller business such as
what the company used to be like, or maybe even one day running my own
business gets more and more appealing.  But it frightens me that such
thoughts have entered my mind so soon... :(  Does working life get any
better as you get older or further up into the "game"?

'tnt, Amfony.


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