RE: Taking your time when a "crisis" occurs

From: Koivu, Lisa <lkoivu_at_qode.com>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 11:48:04 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002FB2DF.20010507114039@fatcity.com>

The
best one happened over the weekend. On Friday night I'm heading downtown for a night of carting around my coworkers while they get hammered. The phone goes off at 9:45pm and it's the boss saying to my coworker (sa) that he thinks there's something wrong with the database and the site, can you check it out? (Why is he calling the sa and not the dba??) So we rush to the office and voila, everything is FINE. Turns out he did the same thing to someone else, called for a bogus reason. He was making up an excuse to call someone to play POKER by pretending there was an emergency here at work.

Sheesh.

-----Original Message-----From: Marianne Brooks [mailto:Marianne.Brooks_at_dpapplications.com]Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 3:07 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Taking your time when a crisis occurs
 My personal fave is 'Do more with less.' So I went to Les and said, Hey, I'm supposed to do more with you.....He was not amused...
 -----Original Message----- From: Tim
 Sawmiller [<A
 href="mailto:sawmillert_at_state.mi.us">mailto:sawmillert_at_state.mi.us] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 11:28 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Taking your time when a crisis occurs "Work smarter not harder"....is that anything like, "Know the difference between doing things right and doing the right thing"?
>>> rodney.holman_at_lodgenet.com 05/07/01 01:51PM
>>> PHB comes from Dilbert: Pointy Haired
 Boss. Those managers who wander around in a clueless state of perceived self-importance offering wonderful platitudes like "Work smarter not harder" and such. Generally they wind up being the chickens discussed in a related response. Rodd <FONT

  size=2>Original Message dated 5/7/01, 11:50:27 AM <FONT 
  size=2>Author: "Koivu," Lisa <lkoivu_at_qode.com> <FONT 
  size=2>Re: RE: Taking your time when a crisis occurs: <FONT 
  size=2>Yes, Rodd, you are right.  There are times when being blunt is

warranted. I do it now - I couldn't a few months ago. At my last employer I was very very good at it and my boss let us do our jobs without interference. However, the real question is, what's PHB? :P

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