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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory
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To: Mike Johnston who wrote (51515)1/26/2006 10:43:33 AM
From: GraceZ  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
As for your friend in IT, who you think is grossly over paid for the amount of work he does in a day, this may be true but not necessarily.

There is a fable told over and over again by IT guys everywhere with numerous variations. The story goes like this:

A famous computer tech from back in the day when computers were as big as several rooms was called in to fix a computer that had simply stopped running. He walks into the room, assesses the situation and then walks up to the behemoth and pounds his fist on the side. The computer starts right up again.

Then he turns to the manager and hands him a bill for three hundred dollars. The manager is aghast, "All you did was walk into the room and hit the side of the computer with your fist! It took you less than a minute!" The tech replies, "Well I charge $2 to pound on it and $298 for knowing where to hit it."
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