Generally I expect Unix systems administrators to look a little eccentric, but the Unix team where I currently work are quite invisible so I can only guess as to their appearance but from what I’ve been told the image on the left may not be too far off the mark! Again if you think that I’m being unkind all I can say is my blog my rules, so with this lot in charge of the systems and an other lot in charge of the project. It should be a real fun time over the next four and a bit months, I know that the project will be done on time and as it’s a fixed price within budget. But if there is a more inefficient way of doing this I’d like to know what it is, still I’m told that bitter and twisted is what I’m best at!
I can see what the project expects to accomplish and can understand the reasons, but for the life of me I can’t see why they are doing the things that they are doing! I wish I could go into some detail here just to clarify, but that would require me to reveal more about the project than I want to. As I have stated more than once in this blog, certain things have been changed or omitted to protect the inept! Although as a shareholder in this company I feel as if I’m just giving someone who if over charging me an easy time of it!
So I find myself involved in a project where there are Muppets requesting that Goons do work for them, it would seem that some thing sometimes gets lost in translation as the people in command are the Smurfs. Not that confusion is difficult you understand, as emails to people in the same team can be misunderstood. So emails between people who speak different languages have absolutely no chance of being understood as far as I can make out, please note that the last time I looked Google translate didn’t handle Smurf very well!