"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...It took about 10
minutes, or twice as long as it took to do the paperwork. Threats of
unemployment can stop all the stupid games & delays.

Sometimes.

I built a custom data acquisition system for a Mac and asked the company
"Apple Certified Programmer" to estimate the time to write a driver for it.
He came back with three months. Not long after the company laid off the lazy
bum so I had to write the driver myself. I did it with four lines of
assembly code generated by LabVIEW.

jsw