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Re: Short notice
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Date: 
Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:49:07 GMT
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Have you seen the UPS commercials where the consultants
propose this grand plan, the client says "Great, do it",
and the consultants say "We don't actually do what
we propose, we just propose it."  So, do you actually
write code, or do you just show powerpoint and wave arms?

KL

In lugnet.loc.ca.on, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.loc.ca.on, Richard Noeckel writes:

I'm not the ‘Boarder Patrol’ but I’ve got a few questions…

So did they, actually.

I was wondering what you do for a living (traveling salesman ;) )

Sales? Please, that hurts. I do real work. I'm a system architect.

And where in Canada did you live in your youth?

1.5 years in Hamilton.

++Lar



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  Re: Short notice
 
(...) ROFLMAO! This could only have been written by someone who knows that the emporer(s) have no clothes. Ray (who spent many years writing, and staring at, puter code) (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: Short notice
 
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Kevin Loch writes: Today I debugged some Java code, wrote some maps, presented slides on the product architecture and met with the CEO of this particular client... so: (...) All of the above. ++Lar (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) So did they, actually. (...) Sales? Please, that hurts. I do real work. I'm a system architect. (...) 1.5 years in Hamilton. ++Lar (24 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.loc.ca.on)

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