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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1373)	3/31/1998 1:53:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

Hamasaki: The good news is that denial is over... The panic has started. 'Here are the signs. Budgets are being revised upward every few weeks. Yes, a few people think they're making good progress, and perhaps one or two are, but most are fooling themselves, the old, a project takes 80 percent of the resources to get to the 80 percent complete point, then it takes another 80 percent of the resources to make the next 20 percent. We've seen several people say that they're at 65%, or completed their assessment, inventory, have their 'methodology' (whatever that is) in place and now <wave a few hands> we just have to change some software and run it through QA, so we're almost done.... NoooOOO, you haven't started. You're at the first U.S. Civil war at the opening battle and are about to get your butt whipped.. wiped... whatever. This is the opening battle, miniballs are zinging, ka-boom, a canon goes off, hey, this isn't like Y2K computer boot camp. What the h*ll is this ..... VSM SPQE 009EC460 NSPQE 009EC3F0 DQE 009EC4E0 FL/RS 0000 SPID 251 KEY 8 DQE 9EC4E0 FQE 9EC510 NDQE 000000 BLK 000A5000 LN 00001000 FQE 9EC510 FQE 80000000 LN 00000F58 AREA 000A5F58 SPQE 009EC3F0 NSPQE 00000000 DQE 009EF100 FL/RS C000 SPID 000 KEY 8 SPQE 009EF100 NSPQE 00000000 DQE 009EC390 FL/RS 6000 SPID 000 KEY 8 DQE 9EC390 FQE 9EC470 NDQE 000000 BLK 000A4000 We never saw anything like that.... can I fake it? Pretend, like a manager. Is anyone looking? Maybe I can slip out. I'm scared. Whaaaaa... I don't wanna be here. ____________ Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 From: (cory hamasaki) Subject: Re: The only good news on the Y2K front. Date: 31 Mar 98 02:26:57 GMT

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1373)	3/31/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

Hamasaki: 'about how the nightmare begins......' '> >> >>It's at the point that I'm getting dumb looks via email. >> > >I got an OC4 trying to parse that. Want to provide a TRT for us Cory? > >-- <snip> I work with a half dozen different contractors and staff employees scattered around the corporate HQ. As the personnel turns over, the corporate history and raw technical expertise is lost. In the past, I could fire off a half page memo to ask for some information, a component, or change made to a system. Usually this was enough to cause some action. Now, because of the dumbing down, turnover, and shuffling around, I'm getting memo's back that either miss the point, ask for clarification where none should be required, or they do something other than what I asked for. Sometimes I get pages of these email 'dumb looks'. No joke, I have spent two months trying to get a guy on the other side of the building to run a job that already works. Every time I email him, I get a memo back with a 'dumb look' in it. I have also spent hours and a dozen phone calls in an effort to get someone to find and fax one piece of paper. The common thread in both is that it's a new person and the person that I used to deal with for years has moved on. <getting their requisite 50% salary increase.> This is the cost of the turnover... ...and it's just beginning. Cory Hamasaki ____________ Newsgroups: comp.software.year-2000 From: (cory hamasaki) Subject: Re: US DEPT. OF SOC. SEC. - IS Y2K OK Date: 9 Jul 97 11:11:57 GMT