Without knowing the particulars of your boss, this is generally not a good approach to convincing a PHB you want something done.
A suggestion:
Instead of planning "comebacks" for when boss says "no", present your ideas in such a way that he says "yes" the first time. Changing a "no" to a "yes" is a lot harder than extracting a "yes" in the first place.
Write down how many hours a day you spend cleaning spyware off computers (a) then give a half page summary of your proposed solution and the number of hours (b) it would take to install, debug it etc. Be as honest as possible with the time. Show boss that after x=f(a,b) days you will be ahead and have more time to work on projects and thus cut costs (use the word MONEY somewhere) in his department.
Managers are usually goaled on revenue... and thus these are the terms in which you have to express things in order to get that "yes" the first time.
He's 38, he's worked his way up to COO of a decent sized multinational IT company, he's got dud hair but at least he looks like a 90s geek instead of a 70s geek (Mr Gates).
Because of all this time dedicated to work, he's probably never had a pussy he didn't rent.
I love Cisco stuff. I does everything I want, it does it well, and it doesn't break.
3com have some good products, but in my experience they don't scale. If I was installing a 10 person office, a 3com firewall and switch is fine. But I wouldn't put 3Com anywhere except the access layer.
I'd also avoid 3coms VoIP solutions. I don't like their WoS, and the NBX is a dog. I'm not about to recommended Cisco because I have no experience with it, but 3Com won't even make it to the short list.
Didn't know about the NetGear/Juniper fusion. Juniper's high-end stuff is great, but way more than all but the largest enterprises and carriers would need. The Netgear lines will complement this well.
I'd better stop making a nice living with a work-at-home job in this area.
Um..no.
If you are using the share-ware business model, then you are the exception.
And there is nothing "corperate drone" about developing on contract to fill a company's requirements. Still, chances are to get a big contract, you need to be a bit more than a one man band. Of course, this isn't always the case (my brother just landed a large corperate contract, and he works weekends as a bit of cash to supplement his megre income as a teacher).
Have you ever considered that perhaps you're charging too much for your software?
I just looked at his website, and he's asking $20 for the software. If what he says is true, that there are thousands of users, then its probably not "crap" software.
One way or another, shareware is dead. People want something for nothing... which is why GNU/Linux/*BSD etc have a real chance of going somewhere.
The classic "write a program and sell it" smal business model is dead... sorry to all those programmers with dreams of making it big with a popular title. Money is programming is going to come via winning projects for particular niches where "off-the-shelf" packages don't exist or cost an arm and a leg, or modifying the same.
Disclaimer: I work for a Mobile Applications software development house as the guy who builds all the infrastructure that the software runs on.
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A company is a "MegaCorp" when its seen/reports/accused of doing something that jumps all over the "little guy".
Although I think this is a storm in a tea-cup, Apple obviously violated their agreement with Apple, and thus should pay up.
Question is, how well would the iPod have sold if it didn't have the Apple logo?
I thrive under the pressure of using my skills and experience against the clock or to do something I've never done before. The pressure caused by a challenge is great. Yeah.. I get shitty for the last 12 hours before a big deadline, but that's pretty normal.
I crack under the pressure caused by stupid managers, antiquated processes, by being told to do something then having the resources pulled (and I don't mean restricted, I mean obliterated), having my "expert opinion" overrode by some dickwad who really doesn't have a clue how to do things, then being lumped with the blame when it doesn't work.
Maybe some people thrive on the latter. It just makes me more sympathetic for the postal workers.
Wal-Mart sells "made for Wal-Mart" versions of movies and video games that cut out the "unnecessary" sex and violence (bastards)... essentially so nothing has more than an 14+ rating.
Are the movies they have for rent the "un-cut" versions, or the Wal-Mart "santized" versions?
True, factory conditions are better in the US, but consumers don't care. They want the low prices. There are plenty of NGOs who preach "don't buy Nike", but the consumer doesn't care. They want the brand, or they want the cheap knockoff. The ethics behind it are very rarely a consideration.
My original point still stands. If US consumers are worried about preseving US jobs, they need to "Buy American"
The people who are worse of are the middle classes of first-world nations, particularly the lower-middle class who does all the factory work.
Dude. You're at the top. What does a "lower-middle class" factory worker make? $13 an hour. About US$25,000 a year.
Comparable workers in the rest of the world are making US$50-US$200 a month, US$600-US$2400 a year.
You are at the top of the food chain. The number of billionares is negligible and can't be taken out of the sample, but the 100 million or so workers in the US can't be.
Where do you buy your groceries? Do you always buy "made in America"? Do you drive an American Car? Where are your computer components from?
The US is an expensive country with great opportunities, but people see cheaper prices overseas and think "I should pay less too". So they do.
This has a knock-on effect. In order to compete, retailers have to lower prices, which means manufacturers have to lower prices. If an manufacturer doesn't lower prices, the retailer sources off-shore, because if they don't, the hungry American consumer will go somewhere else and buy from somebody who will.. eg Wal-Mart.
Suddenly, all the local manufacturers are out of business, laying off US workers. People start complaining about the off-shoring of jobs, but they still want goods at the lowest possible prices... because without a job, they can't afford the more expensive alternative.
Unless the US consumer is prepared to pay the premium for the locally made goods to protect local jobs, the effect of globalisation will be to pull US standards of living towards (note the relative sense) that of the countries who make the goods that the consumers.. err.. consume.
Same has been happening in Australia for years, and will soon happen in Europe now that many "poorer" countries have joined The Union. On average, everybody is better off, but part of that is that the people at the top off the food chain will be worse off than before.
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Note to geeks from a PHB in training:
Without knowing the particulars of your boss, this is generally not a good approach to convincing a PHB you want something done.
A suggestion:
Instead of planning "comebacks" for when boss says "no", present your ideas in such a way that he says "yes" the first time. Changing a "no" to a "yes" is a lot harder than extracting a "yes" in the first place.
Write down how many hours a day you spend cleaning spyware off computers (a) then give a half page summary of your proposed solution and the number of hours (b) it would take to install, debug it etc. Be as honest as possible with the time. Show boss that after x=f(a,b) days you will be ahead and have more time to work on projects and thus cut costs (use the word MONEY somewhere) in his department.
Managers are usually goaled on revenue... and thus these are the terms in which you have to express things in order to get that "yes" the first time.
Duh. The rest of us focus on downloading porn...
I thought the same thing, but I thought only Australians who were teenagers in the 80s would get the reference.
.. there's Final Fantasy A+!"
Easy peasy japonesy
...the other 8%?
I've got an LX that I use as a remote X-terminal for my principal RedHat box. Boots off a floppy. :)
He's 38, he's worked his way up to COO of a decent sized multinational IT company, he's got dud hair but at least he looks like a 90s geek instead of a 70s geek (Mr Gates).
Because of all this time dedicated to work, he's probably never had a pussy he didn't rent.
Of course he's bitter and hostile.
No. There is too much.
I love Cisco stuff. I does everything I want, it does it well, and it doesn't break.
3com have some good products, but in my experience they don't scale. If I was installing a 10 person office, a 3com firewall and switch is fine. But I wouldn't put 3Com anywhere except the access layer.
I'd also avoid 3coms VoIP solutions. I don't like their WoS, and the NBX is a dog. I'm not about to recommended Cisco because I have no experience with it, but 3Com won't even make it to the short list.
Didn't know about the NetGear/Juniper fusion. Juniper's high-end stuff is great, but way more than all but the largest enterprises and carriers would need. The Netgear lines will complement this well.
Um..no.
If you are using the share-ware business model, then you are the exception.
And there is nothing "corperate drone" about developing on contract to fill a company's requirements. Still, chances are to get a big contract, you need to be a bit more than a one man band. Of course, this isn't always the case (my brother just landed a large corperate contract, and he works weekends as a bit of cash to supplement his megre income as a teacher).
4 point WingDings.
4. Download huge amounts of kiddy porn, store it in every directory on the computer, then send thumbnails of the complete collection to the Feds.
THAT'LL LEARN YA!
I just looked at his website, and he's asking $20 for the software. If what he says is true, that there are thousands of users, then its probably not "crap" software.
One way or another, shareware is dead. People want something for nothing... which is why GNU/Linux/*BSD etc have a real chance of going somewhere.
The classic "write a program and sell it" smal business model is dead... sorry to all those programmers with dreams of making it big with a popular title. Money is programming is going to come via winning projects for particular niches where "off-the-shelf" packages don't exist or cost an arm and a leg, or modifying the same.
Disclaimer: I work for a Mobile Applications software development house as the guy who builds all the infrastructure that the software runs on.
A company is a "MegaCorp" when its seen/reports/accused of doing something that jumps all over the "little guy".
Although I think this is a storm in a tea-cup, Apple obviously violated their agreement with Apple, and thus should pay up.
Question is, how well would the iPod have sold if it didn't have the Apple logo?
.. "Ringworm's children".
Eewww.. offspring of an itchy bot-bot.
Yeah. The correct term is "boxens"
I thrive under the pressure of using my skills and experience against the clock or to do something I've never done before. The pressure caused by a challenge is great. Yeah.. I get shitty for the last 12 hours before a big deadline, but that's pretty normal.
I crack under the pressure caused by stupid managers, antiquated processes, by being told to do something then having the resources pulled (and I don't mean restricted, I mean obliterated), having my "expert opinion" overrode by some dickwad who really doesn't have a clue how to do things, then being lumped with the blame when it doesn't work.
Maybe some people thrive on the latter. It just makes me more sympathetic for the postal workers.
Yes, you are predicting a future event (the result obtained in a measurement yet to be made)
The second sentence is technically incorrect.
I don't care how old she is, she's just nasty. I wouldn't have her around the house anyway.
Yeah, I know everybody is after funny mods, but you don't "estimate" a future event, you predict it.
Estimation is making an educated guess at a quantity without scientifically measuring it, usually with some sort of observation.
"I reckon thats 8 inches long and 2 inches thick."
Prediction is using past experience to state that an event will happen.
Forget books. Everything you ever needed to know about nmap you can learn from this woman.
Wal-Mart sells "made for Wal-Mart" versions of movies and video games that cut out the "unnecessary" sex and violence (bastards)... essentially so nothing has more than an 14+ rating.
Are the movies they have for rent the "un-cut" versions, or the Wal-Mart "santized" versions?
True, factory conditions are better in the US, but consumers don't care. They want the low prices. There are plenty of NGOs who preach "don't buy Nike", but the consumer doesn't care. They want the brand, or they want the cheap knockoff. The ethics behind it are very rarely a consideration.
My original point still stands. If US consumers are worried about preseving US jobs, they need to "Buy American" The people who are worse of are the middle classes of first-world nations, particularly the lower-middle class who does all the factory work.
Dude. You're at the top. What does a "lower-middle class" factory worker make? $13 an hour. About US$25,000 a year.
Comparable workers in the rest of the world are making US$50-US$200 a month, US$600-US$2400 a year.
You are at the top of the food chain. The number of billionares is negligible and can't be taken out of the sample, but the 100 million or so workers in the US can't be.
Where do you buy your groceries? Do you always buy "made in America"? Do you drive an American Car? Where are your computer components from?
The US is an expensive country with great opportunities, but people see cheaper prices overseas and think "I should pay less too". So they do.
This has a knock-on effect. In order to compete, retailers have to lower prices, which means manufacturers have to lower prices. If an manufacturer doesn't lower prices, the retailer sources off-shore, because if they don't, the hungry American consumer will go somewhere else and buy from somebody who will.. eg Wal-Mart.
Suddenly, all the local manufacturers are out of business, laying off US workers. People start complaining about the off-shoring of jobs, but they still want goods at the lowest possible prices... because without a job, they can't afford the more expensive alternative.
Unless the US consumer is prepared to pay the premium for the locally made goods to protect local jobs, the effect of globalisation will be to pull US standards of living towards (note the relative sense) that of the countries who make the goods that the consumers.. err.. consume.
Same has been happening in Australia for years, and will soon happen in Europe now that many "poorer" countries have joined The Union. On average, everybody is better off, but part of that is that the people at the top off the food chain will be worse off than before.