Re: Re: Perl can get you fired, if you suck at (your job/perl)

I don't remember who told me this at YAPC::Eu (please step forward) but he stated that he did 90% of the work in the first X months of the Y years he worked there (using Perl ofcourse)...

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Beatnik
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coding yourself out of a job by Anonymous Monk on Aug 05, 2001 at 18:30 UTC
i wasn't the one who told you that, but it was true of my last job. i worked there for about two years. the last year i spent doing mostly non-work-related development because i had automated all of my job functions and had nothing left to do (well, practically nothing). guilt eventually got me to find a new job where I could feel like i deserved the paycheck i got	[reply]
Re: coding yourself out of a job by blakem (Monsignor) on Aug 06, 2001 at 00:13 UTC
Wasn't Thomas Edison rumored to have done that as a telegraph operator? He automated the required hourly 'ping' that let people know he was alive and awake. This gave him time to sleep, if I remember correctly. -Blake	[reply]