On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:59, jdow wrote:
> When bosses ask one too many times when I am working full speed ahead
> on "getting it done as soon as possible" I often answer "Second tuesday
> next week." The Ruddy Hatters are welcome to file off the serial number
> and make creative software reuse of that phrase if they wish.
> 
> I don't think it would be politic for them to do what I'd sometimes do
> when pressured once too often. If I figured a week I'd answer a week.
> Then next time asked I'd answer "two weeks". Third time I'd answer
> "four weeks'. It once took until "eight weeks" for someone go get the
> message, "When it is ready. And not a moment sooner or later."

I'm still fond of "A week after the last person asks when it will be
released" myself.

 - jck

-- 
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man."

 - George Bernard Shaw



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