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To: Sean W. Smith who wrote (6170)	2/9/1999 9:48:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Exactly so. I would never dispute the undisputable that managers are, by and large, idiots. But I must give due note to the fact that I, and my collegues, who all without dissenters agreed to the general proposition of managers, could not muster any substantive disagreement to the shortcuts that are now glibly referred to as the y2k problem. It's a little comforting to be able to say we'd have all got our butts fired. It's true, but more or less beside the point. We all agreed. NOBODY knew how it would come out. NOBODY believed these apps would survive. I'm still not convinced we were wrong. I say again, these apps did not, by and large, survive. It would have been horribly expensive to do it another way. I would have fired the manager that had the chutzpah to spend many $$$$$ in 1974 to plan for a problem that might occur in 1999. Or 1984. Now I have a (an ex-) collegue that did it in 1996, and I'd nail his hide to the shed, Fred, except we fired his worthless butt ... <g>