Nearly ten years ago I had a project to design an ISDN terminal
adapter/router for "home" use. Once the design was completed I
(and several beta testers) had to install ISDN to our homes in order
to evaluate the product. We all lived in SoCal - with PacBell as the
provider.

We spent *months* going around and around with the PacBell
installers, CO technicians and the general bureacracy and so-called
"tech support" folks.

Eventually we gave up and decided to abandon the product and the
project - 'cause we realized that if *we* couldn't get things going with
PacBell there was NO chance for any potential end-user/customer.
The product worked great - we just couldn't get past the install phase
when working with PacBell!!!

A few weeks later I read a bio on Scott Adams and learned that he had
been employed by...........PacBell - in the ISDN engineering group!!!!!
Suddenly it all became clear - and I never laughed so hard...8-).........

Bill

"Mike Andrews" wrote in message
...
Gary S. Idontwantspam@net wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2005 20:24:45 -0500, "Clair J. Robinson"
wrote:

Roy Lewallen wrote:

This reminds me of the Dilbert cartoon on my wall:

PHB (Pointy-Haired Boss), pointing to flip chart graph of declining
sales: "Our sales are dropping like a rock."

PHB, pointing to flip chart graph labeled "Future" and steadily
rising:
"Our plan is to invent some sort of doohickey that everyone wants to
buy."

PHB, to Dilbert: "The visionary leadership part is done. How long
will
your part take?"

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

Wonderful! I missed that one somewhere.

73, CJ K?CJ

The really funny thing about Dilbert is that people who work in that
type of environment see only that the character names are wrong for
their office.

Reminds me of a Will Rogers quote, "I don't make jokes. I just watch
the government and report the facts."

Scott Adams worked in a high-tech office, and reports the facts.

It gives me rather considerable pleasure to report that Scott Adams also
appears to monitor, or participate pseudonomously in, some of the other
newsgroups and mailing lists I frequent. Incidents from more than one of
those groups/lists have appeared in Dilbert essentially unchanged within a
few days of being posted to the group/list.

Sometimes I think Scott works for WeBuildHighways, where I'm employed.

--
Mike Andrews W5EGO 5WPM
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Tired old sysadmin working on his code speed