The chief engineer who started dating the secretary. Followed by the CEO who started sleeping with her.
The Wally who could never understand why he needed to shut down his Unix machine (instead of just flipping the switch), or why his files kept getting corrupted. Oh, or why he got fired when he spent an hour and a half snoring at his desk.
The development manager for Netscape who, on his way to a meeting to license important strategic technology, wound up chatting about it for hours on the plane with someone who turned out to work for Microsoft.
The VP who told the press about a $50M contract that the company was sure to win...two weeks before the decision was made. The customer was not pleased. The company did not get the contract.
The "how we did it at my last job" guy.
The people who spend vast chunks of time on their fantasy football leagues. (To quote Dave Barry: "This is crazy, right? If these people said they were managing herds of pretend caribou, the authorities would be squirting lithium down their throats with turkey basters.")
The marketing VP who spent $100,000 on advice on how to rename the company, came up with a really stupid name, and didn't let the fact that the name was already taken slow her down. (The other company was in a different industry, but stupidname.com was taken, so she registered stupidnameinc.com...and was surprised when customers sending email kept forgetting the "inc".)
My handful
The Wally who could never understand why he needed to shut down his Unix machine (instead of just flipping the switch), or why his files kept getting corrupted. Oh, or why he got fired when he spent an hour and a half snoring at his desk.
The development manager for Netscape who, on his way to a meeting to license important strategic technology, wound up chatting about it for hours on the plane with someone who turned out to work for Microsoft.
The VP who told the press about a $50M contract that the company was sure to win...two weeks before the decision was made. The customer was not pleased. The company did not get the contract.
The "how we did it at my last job" guy.
The people who spend vast chunks of time on their fantasy football leagues. (To quote Dave Barry: "This is crazy, right? If these people said they were managing herds of pretend caribou, the authorities would be squirting lithium down their throats with turkey basters.")
The marketing VP who spent $100,000 on advice on how to rename the company, came up with a really stupid name, and didn't let the fact that the name was already taken slow her down. (The other company was in a different industry, but stupidname.com was taken, so she registered stupidnameinc.com...and was surprised when customers sending email kept forgetting the "inc".)