I knew that as soon as my boss asked me to install Project it was time to leave. It is kind of funny, he was actually a reall good manager for a really long time. He would give me a project, ask for my input, and then get out of the way so that I could get it done. I would occasionally have to report back how things were going so he could keep his boss happy, but nothing formal.

Then, the Company started some sort of managers training program where they took all of our managers for one day a week for a couple of months and programmed them to play the part of textbook good manager. Pretty early on, I could see the changes. First, it was a written weekly report. Then it was keeping a ToDo list in Outlook and giving him access to it. Finally, the last straw. He asked me to prepare MS Project crap for each of the projects I was working on.

I went on vacation, thought it over, decided that I would rather be unemployed and living somewhere nice than to be micromanaged. So, the day I got back from vacation I quit. I am moving someplace where I can worry about mountain climbing instead of whether I got all of the tasks in place on my latest Gaant chart. Maybe I will find another job with a better manager againa. Maybe I wont and will just have to work as a park ranger. Might be solar panel, 486 laptop, Programming Perl, and a 30 mile hike to the nearest road for me.

In reply to Re: MS Project by gnubbs
in thread Maxims for Programmers by perrin

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.