' How did we get into this Y2K mess? It's the managers, the clueless, the dolts, the stupes'
Good analysis of the one of the causes of the Y2K mess by Cory Hamasaki. Anger is rightfully part of his story.
John
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'..and here's the proof, bringing this back on track for c.s.y2k. How did we get into this Y2K mess? It's the managers, the clueless, the dolts, the stupes (please, I'm not calling anyone here names, lighten up.) the horn-hairs, who spent the last 15 years right-sizing and making corporations efficient, who didn't REV the mainframe hardware and software, who wasted our resources chasing the desktop will 'o the wisp.
I've been especially cruel to the idiots at the FAA and their fellow travelers who 6 months ago were defending them and air transport in c.s.y2k. The FAA is an especially egregious example of corrupt, almost criminal, mis-management. Yes, no one person is to blame, everyone was just following orders, sure, we heard rumors, but we never actually believed that they were doing those things.
That's management, and yes, if Charles Keating and Jim Baker can go to jail, so should the FAA management. They had a public trust. ,b>They got theirs, they went on junkets, sat in meetings, ate donuts for 15 years while the IT infrastructure that ensures safe and efficient air travel deteriorated... and now, and now, I have to listen to yet another well written defense of management as the solution.
.and please, don't confuse .5'th line management, the poor sap who is appointed a 'team lead' over 10-15 programmers, the sap who was coding yesterday and is now 'in the barrel', getting hammered from both sides; don't confuse our sap for mid and senior management, the pompous, the blame-shifters, the arrogant.
We know the difference; our target isn't the senior programmer, it's the secretary or fancy-boy who worms their way into meetings, the corner office, into signing the papers. We know who the con-artists are, the scammers, the losers who should be selling used cars but sell a glib line in large organizations.
We know who they are; we understand how the system failed. That's why we're in this mess.
cory hamasaki'
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