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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-07-26 under

"When I hear someone say, 'I don't care, just fix it,' my universal translator converts that into, 'I don't know what the problem is, and I don't have the ability to comprehend it anyway; so don't bother trying to explain it. I have money, I have power, I'm the boss.' Although the phrase makes the speaker sound decisive and managerial, it's really just a sham; it means the person saying it has lost touch with the technology that he or she is being paid to implement." -- anonymous, "Off The Record" column, InfoWorld magazine, 2006-07-17 (vol. 28, no. 29), p. 44

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posted by [identity profile] scarlettj9.livejournal.com at 10:59am on 2006-07-26
Not always. Sometimes it just means fix it. I don't need to know how or why my computer fucks up the printing process every 3 or 4 days, as long as it's not something I'm causing. I certainly don't have money or power and in no way should I ever be considered the boss. And it really isn't my job to do yours. Sometimes it just needs to be fixed.
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posted by [identity profile] netpositive.livejournal.com at 01:05pm on 2006-07-26
Yeah, that's a not-very-thought-out comment. Sure, I've had bosses who should have known stuff and didn't, and it's at minimum annoying and occasionally dangerous. But everyone has both specialities of knowledge and also areas where something is a complete mystery. Personally, I don't think I've met anyone where the set of knowledge is larger than the set of ignorance! One can't know everything (hell, I don't have *time* to know everything even if I'd like to).
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posted by [identity profile] trouble131.livejournal.com at 10:16pm on 2006-07-26
Actually it translates to me as someone who is too focused on their own point of view to see or care why things break down. This is someone who is missing an opportunity to know why something has happened and not learning how to prevent it from happening again.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 09:39pm on 2006-07-27
Oftentimes when I've heard that it translates to "I'm way too busy to take responsibility for that myself, and you're the expert, so you're elected to handle it."

It would be nice if everyone had the time and pay to actually be informed about all angles of their prospective jobs, but, especially in IT, that's an absolutely daunting -- if not utterly impossible -- expectation. People specialise, and sometimes even relative generalists don't do very well in getting hired, because the CW is "experience a mile wide and an inch deep," whether that's true or not.
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