I Need More Space

2017-06-22

I remember we had a "Marketing Director" at one place who kept complaining about the lack of content on our website, and how things she's been assured by her team had been added just couldn't be found.

This kind of bounced around for a while until eventually she moaned about at board level, someone shouted at someone, someone else volunteered it must be IT's fault, and one of our guys was sent to actually go and sit with her. Turns out, she wasn't aware of anything off the bottom of the screen. Understand, this wasn't a "below the fold" thing, it was a genuine ignorance that you can scroll down and see more.

One of our smart-alec 1st line guys gave her a bigger screen which could be rotated to portrait as "an interim fix". Some time later she took it upon herself to get involved in the details of the next version of the website and make directions on design and layout, you can just imagine how well that went.

Ah well, I felt for our guy who had to spend a merry chunk of his time dealing with that department and their constant need to blame us for there own shortcomings, still, he did have the enduring memory of seeing that same Marketing Director as a more junior member of the colouring-in team "earning" her promotion from the MD in a disused storeroom during one of the more drunken office parties.

2017-06-22

Way up in the higher levels of management, responsibility and job titles are so vague that those folks have to compare themselves by other criteria, like the thickness of their carpets and the square feet of office floor space. In one particularly vicious law office, the alpha-lawyer fought to get a corner office, as that would give him more windows and a better view. A short while later he was back, complaining that the building corner-column took up almost 2 square feet of his office floor, making his office smaller than everybody else's, and he wanted the column removed.. It took some careful convincing about how he would probably enjoy his office more if the 22 floors above him didn't come crashing down.

The other lawyers were just as bad. They all wanted their computers stuffed to the max with memory to 4GB, (when memory was $300 for 256K). Informing them that all they used was a legal word-processor that could only use 128K of memory, under DOS. Technical arguments didn't work on them, so they all got lots of hot and expensive memory that could never be used.

I Need More Space

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