Safety Cap's Journal: I #(&# HATE cheap-ass companies

I just got done begging---begging---for a friggin' pencil from the old bat who "owns" the supply closet. I asked for 5, she gave me 2 used ones.

TWO USED *(#@$#@ PENCILS!!!!!!

And had the gall to ask why I needed five. BECAUSE I NEED 'EM, you old hag!

Okay muthafarkers, you complained when we were negotiating for me to come on board fulltime, how I was "so expensive" and then you chump me out with time wasters. You waste so much time, effort, and money---yes, money---looking after every US$0.02 pencil that you forget that your developer is sitting in the hall, waiting to receive less than he needs to get the job done and not programming! Oh, and because he was thwarted from pilfering your stupid locker of a whole $0.10 worth of valuable office supplies, he'll be back in a week or so to beg for more crumbs...again, instead of programming.

According to The Joel Test, we score a THREE (before I started working here it was a 1). And they wonder why it always takes a long time to get anything done. Roadblocks? Nah, not us! We just need to control costs. Oh, and you can't have Visio--a tool that will allow you to do the job in a few hours--to do your data flow diagrams. Use MS Paint instead, even if it takes you a few days and is unsuitable to the task, because it is "free."

I like paint

[bofh31337]

I think using visio and not paint should be part of the Joel test. Why not make your own test where you score better, maybe that will help. :)

What a strange world we live in...You could st the building on fire.

Phenomenon

[bettiwettiwoo]

You know, I don't think that I have ever seen an economic analysis of this phenomenon and yet it must be one of the largest money-wasters in any form of enterprise (used broadly) today.

And it's really hard to understand why this behaviour perpetuates for to compare the relative cost of the pencils saved to the cost of the un-productive programmer can hardly be that difficult ... and the outcome glaring obvious.

And yet it's ubiquitous ... it doesn't make any sense, it really doesn't.