Salesman who keeps selling the product to people who have computers it won't work on.
Engineer who insists on an elaborate, tremendously lengthy, test of his circuit board, then complains about how long it takes to execute, and compares it to another programmer's quick test software -- which skips the test in question because it took so long to execute.
Manager who explains that one shouldn't waste time looking for the bug in hardware, because it's KNOWN to be a software problem -- turned out it was a stack overflow, in the hardware, and took an extra 6 months to find because of his "help".
The Data General "Eagle" syndrome -- after the Eagle was developed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine), DG decided that they should, as a general policy, bring in college new-hires and stick them in the middle of failing projects with no management support -- after all, it worked once.
Manager who asks an underling to call and run a meeting, then sabotages the meeting. My favorite from this was "Don't you DARE think that you understand my agenda!"
IT director who, when necessary to reboot the server during office hours, gets on the intercom and announces "This is your Captain speaking. The Computer is going DOWN in five minutes. Repeat, The Computer is Going Down." (his caps!)
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Engineer who insists on an elaborate, tremendously lengthy, test of his circuit board, then complains about how long it takes to execute, and compares it to another programmer's quick test software -- which skips the test in question because it took so long to execute.
Manager who explains that one shouldn't waste time looking for the bug in hardware, because it's KNOWN to be a software problem -- turned out it was a stack overflow, in the hardware, and took an extra 6 months to find because of his "help".
The Data General "Eagle" syndrome -- after the Eagle was developed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine), DG decided that they should, as a general policy, bring in college new-hires and stick them in the middle of failing projects with no management support -- after all, it worked once.
Manager who asks an underling to call and run a meeting, then sabotages the meeting. My favorite from this was "Don't you DARE think that you understand my agenda!"
IT director who, when necessary to reboot the server during office hours, gets on the intercom and announces "This is your Captain speaking. The Computer is going DOWN in five minutes. Repeat, The Computer is Going Down." (his caps!)