Everyone gets that PITA is an acronym for Pain In The A$$ right? Just checking. I used to hear it called the Peter Principle too, but I didn't get the Peter reference. I figured PITA was better because it's easier to promote someone out of somewhere than to fire them.
Dana, the issue wasn't that n
truly amazing and utterly Canadian :) Was the issue that none of your spoke French or that none of you was a native speaker ? :)
Dana
> but with French variable names. The whole team was English and
> therefore not allowed to officially translate. So our English
> variables would have ahd to be
; > Haggerty, Mike wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, the PITA principle only comes into play when they
> > pass you over
> > > to promote a goat.
> > >
> > > M
> > >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: Kevin Graeme
That one smelled so bad it was fetid.
larry
> -Original Message-
> From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:04 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Management blah!
>
>
> If you get passed over for a goat, you could rant and
ver to
> promote a goat.
>
> M
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 2:39 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Management blah!
>
> > Ever hear of the PITA principle - promoted to the highe
--Original Message-
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 2:39 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Management blah!
>
> > Ever hear of the PITA principle - promoted to the highest level of
> your
> incompetence.
>
> Ha
Heh. I recently worked with a couple of programmers whose first
language was Spanish. I've also cleaned up code in Russian. You know
what? It shouldn't frickin' matter. Working with the Spanish-speakers,
we generally used Spanish stuff, with a few well-entrenched exceptions
(things we'd us
Yeah, the PITA principle only comes into play when they pass you over to
promote a goat.
M
-Original Message-
From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 2:39 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Management blah!
> Ever hear of the PITA principle - promo
Must be for a federal project.
larry
> -Original Message-
> From: Guy McDowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:28 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Management blah!
>
>
> I went through a similar thing on a gov't pro
> Ever hear of the PITA principle - promoted to the highest level of your
incompetence.
Haha! It's actually called the Peter Principle, but I kinda like yours
better.
-Kevin
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I went through a similar thing on a gov't project. Canada is officially bilingual French/English. We were using URL variables and one of the managers -who was a francophone with an English degree- said that when people are on the French site the variables in the URL must be in French. So that basic
I worked on an app for imaging and documenting stuff. Two weeks ago, things went really wrong, because people were unorganized, miscommunication, plain stupidity, or whateverthere were duplicates of images scattered all around and all sorts of stuff.
Last week, had a talk with manager, explai
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