Re: Old dogs...old tricks

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 01:47 PM 4/23/2003 -0400, Dan Billings wrote:
>Your post makes no sense.  If the engineer is aware of the problem and has
>not informed management, he is not due a warning.  If he has informed
>management of the problem and they told him not to spend the money to fix
>it, how can management blame him for the fine?

Okay - you DEFINITELY haven't been an engineer working for a commercial 
client with that statement :-)

Management can and will blame anyone but themselves when the heat comes 
on...every engineer knows that and most every radio engineer - myself 
included - has fallen victim to it as well at least once in their 
career.   All you have to do is read Computerworld's "Shark Tank" every day 
(www.computerworld.com/sharky) to know that it happens to a lot of people.

BTW - management can and will shoot the messager, it's a real minefield; 
engineers that bring bad news to their bosses are routinely fired because 
it can make the boss look bad when he has to report problems to his 
boss.   Logic and office politics are usually mutually exclusive concepts :-)


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