Reply to post: Re: When you're set up to fail...

A basement of broken kit, zero budget – now get the team running

ma1010
Paris Hilton

Re: When you're set up to fail...

@chivo243

"She had plans to get more budget... waiting for the ultimate clusterFcsk to cry to her superiors."

I think you're really onto something here. In the particular corner of Hell where I'm condemned to work, I've come up with ways to simplify and speed up key tasks. For a while, when we were way behind and had no budget, the PHBs were very happy with me doing this. Then, the budget situation got better or something. When another "big job" came along, I came up with a way to speed it up by at least 4x over the stone-age process they were using - and got a bollocking for "not going through channels" and was told not to use my shortcut methods or give them to anyone.

WTF? I wondered. Only answer I could come up with (other than total insanity on the part of PHBs - which I can't rule out) is that they wanted the project to be a total time soak to try to get more budget/headcount or something out of their PHBs.

Paris because she's fully qualified to be a PHB here.

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