How easy is it to make statement that doesn't speak about anything in particular yet manages to speak about everything? And this guy thinks he has perfected that art!!! What a meeting that was? One that i didn't want to attend but had to just because I am a so-called 'Team lead'. Mr.X started the session with a stupid mistake. He mis-spelled the initiative's name on the board. What a way to get started.
Then came his list of generalizations:
1. 'You would have suggested decommissioning some job or removing a dataset or migrating to tape, thereby offering a cost saving. Similarly i need data for all projects from Jan 2007'
-- How do i make X understand that this applies to only Mainframe projects and not to Open Source projects? he listens to all my talk and says it should be easier to quantify savings for Open Source projects..!!i am pretty sure i didn't mean to convey that..perhaps i have a problem in working with dumbos..should check out...
2. 'You will have start time and end time for the query. Subtract them and you get the time saved.'
--What does this guy think? Every god-forsaken query has to be run just for noting down the time taken and no idea to what that gives as an output?
3. 'There are tables without indexes'
--That was told with an obvious reference to one of my 'killer' projects. By that time though i had no idea as to how to put across ideas into a brain that X thought was in abundance but never seemed existent to me. Virtual reality!!
End of it all..i had managed to waste 45 minutes of my precious time at Office..yup..that was tea time for me!!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
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