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It's the Best of the Sidebar. What, did you expect more from a title like that?
Originally posted by "military fool" ...
A while back, I worked for a company that required *frequent* status reports, at every level, with roll-ups from lower-level reports to each level, al the way up the chain.
Originally posted by "snoofle"...
I worked in a fairly large department that used a spreadsheet as the bug-submission-tracking "system". Naturally, the person who assigned the work kept it open at all time, making it impossible for anyone to actually open it to enter a new bug.
Originally posted by "jgoewert" ...
While everyone else was partying like it was 1999, I spent the night in my company's war room braced for any Y2K issues. Being naive, right out of college I took a job at a major railroad company doing green screen work. The mainframe was ready. The minutes ticked by. At 12:00:00, everything sat pretty with no major problems. A collective sigh eminated.
Today's Best-of-the-Sidebar was originally posted by "aikimark."
When I asked the tech from the bone density scanner company about the poor performace of their software, they replied with "we're not a software company." I'm glad we were listening on a speaker phone, because I have witnesses to that statement. What refreshing honesty! Of course, I didn't disagree.
I'm not sure when this was posted on the side bar, but it was the warning sign at the top of the SkyJack that Robin Harrison was using to install wireless access points on the ceiling of a warehouse...
Originally posted to the Side Bar by Chris, following the response from "Gary" (a manager at his former company) about a question importing Word-HTML into their template system.
Hi Chris,
Today's Best-of-the-Sidebar was originally posted by "Yahweh" ...
Being a programmer and the only computer literate person in my family, I get tech support calls from my family all the time. I got a phone call from a brother-in-law today:
Dec 07