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 -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
