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Nov21-11, 09:59 PM   #35
 

small software upgrade next wednesday

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You, sir, have obviously never experienced PF withdrawals. I'm open for suggestions on how to accomplish any one of your activities1 while convulsing.

1 With the exception of using my toothbrush to clean the floors.
You could always make love to a blow up doll... - they can't get pregnant, too. (realised that earlier)
Nov22-11, 10:26 AM   #36
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We always used to do software updates on Fridays.

Then we got an "accident prone" programmer on the team, and we changed to doing them on Thursday, so if something went wrong we had Friday to fix it before it screwed up the weekend's computing.

But one day wasn't always enough to fix the problems, so we changed to doing updates on Wednesdays ...

... and eventually, we got back to doing them on Fridays, and working two 16-hour days on Saturday and Sunday to clean up the mess.

Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.
We solved many problems by promoting people. Sad, isn't it?
Nov22-11, 12:27 PM   #37

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We solved many problems by promoting people. Sad, isn't it?
It's only sad if they figure out that's why they got promoted.
Nov22-11, 12:34 PM   #38
 
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Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.
Nov22-11, 12:41 PM   #39
 
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Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something there that deserves a good name.
The Fundamental Theorem of Business?
Nov22-11, 04:08 PM   #40
 
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Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.
That's the Peter Out Principle.
Nov22-11, 04:25 PM   #41
 
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Upgrade is done. Some template will need to be worked on. My apologies for any temporary goofyness. Thanks!
Nov22-11, 04:30 PM   #42
 
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Upgrade is done. Some template will need to be worked on. My apologies for any temporary goofyness. Thanks!
Nice work! I barely even felt it; 'twas merely a slight pinch!
Nov22-11, 04:31 PM   #43
 
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Let's come up with a fancy name for this principle. The 'Peter Principle' is the tendency for promotion until incompetence is reached. This related principle may summarized 'promote until incompetence doesn't matter'. I don't have a suggestion - I just think we have something here that deserves a good name.
Entropy of Competence?
Nov22-11, 04:57 PM   #44
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Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.
An inept manager who is in charge of a project and managing people can do much more damage than the most inept worker. Here's hoping that he was fast-tracked to a project of one with no budget.

The problem isn't solved permanently because he's still a drain on and a potential liability to the company. The solution is to keep promoting him! Eventually your competition will notice and lure hire him away from you.
Nov22-11, 05:09 PM   #45
 
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A few things I've noticed with the upgrade:

- When I log on I get an invalid message yet when I click on a banner link I'm shown as logged in

- People's blog count isn't appearing in a neat box but plaining written under their post count

All for now...
Nov22-11, 05:28 PM   #46
 
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A few things I've noticed with the upgrade:

- When I log on I get an invalid message yet when I click on a banner link I'm shown as logged in

- People's blog count isn't appearing in a neat box but plaining written under their post count

All for now...
Both of those issues should be fixed now
Nov22-11, 05:55 PM   #47

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The solution is to keep promoting him! Eventually your competition will notice and lure hire him away from you.
Actually, he got shunted into a corner of the business that was taken over by an outsourcing company. He's probably screwing things up at "international enterprise empowerment evangelist" level by now.

That sort of outcome almost makes you want to believe in karma
Nov22-11, 06:07 PM   #48
 
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Nov22-11, 08:32 PM   #49
 
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We seem to have lost the ability to highlight a piece of text and type "Alt Gr+i" to surround it by "i" tags or "Alt Gr+b" to surround it by "b" tags. (Not a big problem, but if it's easy to fix...)

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Just checking if the spoiler tags are still ugly. Not an actual problem, but I was curious if that would change since they look so much better on at least one other vBulletin forum I know. Apparently ours cant even hide a smiley.
Nov22-11, 08:55 PM   #50
 
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Spoiler
Just checking if the spoiler tags are still ugly. Not an actual problem, but I was curious if that would change since they look so much better on at least one other vBulletin forum I know. Apparently ours cant even hide a smiley.
floating ghost smileys
Nov22-11, 10:05 PM   #51
 
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Every time I close my brower, I get logged out. (Yes, I'm checking "remember me" each time).
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