>>"Yeah, it's a good idea, but there are more important things I have for >>you to do..."),
>Wow, you had one of those guys too? We just barely got rid of ours a few >weeks ago. He moved on to greater opportunities. Bright guy, but to >follow his lead, you'd just never get to do anything! Thankfully, I'm long out of there, so I don't have to put up with much of that. But yeah, his famous "explanation" is that I was "down there" <holding hand just slightly off the desk> busy doing things that "to me" seemed important, but he was "up here" <holding hand significantly higher>, presumably because he was more in-tune with the Master Plan(tm) of what the company needed to get done. The only difference was that doing things His Way(tm), I was still taking care of the minutiae that I was *already* doing, only having to wait for his permission to do so. Just like the infamous Dilbert car2n where Pointy-Haired Boss gives him an assignment, he goes ticka-ticka-ticka on his keyboard while PHB is prattling on about something, then says "Done!", that's pretty much what I was doing there. Going Through Channels(tm), my friend there would write up the fix-request, give it to her boss, who'd sit on it a few days, then forward it to my grandboss, who'd then give it to my boss, who'd then give it to me... typically a week or more after it was first written-up. And usually, I got the heads-up and just did the fix directly, actually implementing the fix, testing it, etc., well before I'd even see the paperwork. That was the more efficient way of *not* Going Through Channels(tm). And of course, when GTCing, some things would be held up in paperwork so long, that by the time I'd see it, it would have to be done, like *that* *day*. Feh. Anyhoo, sorry for the tirade, but back to the wiki, sometimes the only way to get one done at all is to just do it yourself, screw anyone else's opinions beforehand, then "unveil" it at the end. "Use it, or not, your choice..." If it ends up with too much spam, or is an ugly format, or the site itself is unreliable, okay, *then* let the critics have at it and try to do one better. Difference is, *you've* got one, and *they* don't, so by default you had that much more to show for it. Just my 2c...
