Jim Wilkins wrote:

On Jan 20, 6:17 pm, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:01:06 -0800, Winston
wrote:

Don Foreman wrote:
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Then there was a re-org that involved more politics than reason and my
skunkworks and I got nuked. But it lasted for 15 years and we had one
hell of a good time while it lasted.

Good on ya, Don. Sometimes intelligence and bravery
are rewarded.

You can bet all your people look back on that time with
great fondness and respect.

Dittoes, Don. Congrats on creating an environment where you and your
fellow workers could thrive happily and be much more productive than
the typical corporate mice.

Damn the cubicles. Full speed ahead!

They stuck you in a cubical? I had three 4' X 8' workbenches,
multiple carts stacked high with test equipment, a stereo microscope on
another cart, and industrial steel shelving loaded down with databooks.
They didn't have a cubicle big enough for all my stuff.


I had a room 24' square, possibly the largest office at MITRE, but
back by the boiler room like Dan Ackroyd's in Spies Like Us.


I had the left rear corner of the 200' * 200' building. I had more
space than three of the engineering offices, combined. The boss told me
he gave me that area because I was hard to get along with. I told him I
didn't like the people who took too many smoke breaks, and goofed off
when there was work to be done. They didn't like me because I generally
completed over 200% more jobs per week. When they would complain I
would tell them "I was hired to do a job, not win a popularity contest."



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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.