What...
...a bastard!
"So let's just get this straight," I say to the PFY as he hovers about my desk. "You want me to write a reference for you lauding you as a veritable workplace IT savant who can leap laser printers in a single bound, bend RFPs in his bare hands and generally manage an IT project with the ease of a veteran?" "Yes." "So you …
"You know," I say. "I was just thinking that the other day..."
Hmmm? Which way? Up or Down? Or Sideways for the Dexterously Sinister in Play?
Everywhere there are Choices and Opportunity to Grace with Fortunes to Spend in Grateful Appreciation ........ the Rock and Star upon which Islamic Banking is Founded.
You realise BOFH should have AI Health Safe Wealth Warning for the Tips Shared?
And have you ever considered what it would be like to read your own Psych Evaluation Report as interpreted by a Third Party for a Third Party, for what could they ever know whenever all that they know, is Second-hand and Sub-Prime, Dated and may even be Simply Wrong too. Then is anything built upon IT a Sham and will Ultimately Fail around the Fallacy.
The Fallacy is that Banks have Money whenever All that they Deliver and Server is Debt.
Ok ...Feeling a lot better after and for that BOFH Spin/Moment. Right, where were we? :-)
I'm in the strange position of liking my tech managerial job (as jobs go) but wanting my boss to advertise my position, so I can transfer to another office within the company (where a position in project management I like the look of more is waiting for me).
Paris, because it's well-documented that she has experience at various types of job.
Not likely. We've got another reminder of the impending move to the new site/batcave this episode so I doubt that angle will be dropped after building it up for months.
You really would think the PFY would know better by now. Double-cross the BOFH and you'll get what's coming to you.
If we may presume that the PFY has learned anything from the BOFH during his years in the trenches, then the PFY should be a fair bastard himself. So what would a proper bastard do?
Never have made the other four references, for one. Delivered the reference from Simon to an accomplice, along with a script for two. Headed out for an extended lunch when the call (i.e. the bait) was delivered for three. Let Simon think he's putting the screws to the PFY when in all actuality there is no other job, so when the BOFH leaves for it the PFY is left as the new BOFH.
Not that it will last of course. Nobody out-bastards the BOFH (for long).
Sounds to me like the woman checking the references is out to screw them both. Blackmailing them and enticing them to the wilderness for a deal, then taking over at the old firm while they're away. Then she'll make a real deal letting them back in on probation but only if they agree to do all the boring stuff connected with the move.
Maybe we should open a book on the possible developments. Prizes and odds in hexadecimals of course...
(Steve cos of his look of triumphant deviltry...)
He did a good job by putting his own phone# for the reference, but then to go out and not divert hist phone to his mobile?! Noob mistake that!!
Unless of course Carnifex is right, and this is all just bait.
This could get interesting...
PS: Simon, you very nearly caused severe problems at my work. If I dont get my weekly fix of BOFH, I get very irritable, which is not good when the MD of the co who has just bought us out is visiting from the states. Any chance of a warning next time? An irritable mouse is a ticking timebomb. And don't get me started on those damn librarians....
"Sounds to me like the woman checking the references is out to screw them both. " ...... By xjy Posted Saturday 19th July 2008 14:41 GMT
Some would say that that is too much information, xjy, whilst others would considerate it just enough and all they need.to function Perfectly. That's QuITe a Woman's Driver and Impossible for a Man to Resist ..... for who would choose to be a Cad and/or a Fad?
"No, not really, but Richard Stallman is talking next week and I've been having some insomnia problems recently."
Bastard better tape me a copy -- preferably one where he's explaining why I can't use my new laptop because the graphics card only works with proprietary drivers -- or why I should give up all Opera's nice features and use the bloated and inferior Firefox because of "freedom" -- or why it's "GNU/Linux" -- bonus if anyone can get ahold of the GCC guys and make 'em explain the whole thing with strings.h. You don't know insomnia until you've stayed up three nights straight to get a one-line fix that takes three hours to duplicate (plus about 45 minutes further re-mastering ISO's afterwards).
In fact, make it a deluxe DVD edition, with Microsoft Sam reading the inevitable flamewar when I copy-and-paste this comment over on some random Slashdot thread, I'll probably need it for the next round of patches after this.