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[personal profile] sergebroom
"How many corporate employees does it take to fix an urgent database issue?"
"Ten. One to propose a simple solution in the morning, nine people uncomfortable with that simple solution so they propose a convoluted solution that would take four days, until the end of the day and many emails later when they decide to go with the simple solution, which takes less than 40 minutes to implement."

Date: Jan. 31st, 2013 05:15 am (UTC)
onyxlynx: The words "Onyx" and "Lynx" with x superimposed (Default)
From: [personal profile] onyxlynx
I've worked there. Before email, so it actually took 4 days to get to the simple solution..

Date: Jan. 31st, 2013 08:35 pm (UTC)
onyxlynx: The words "Onyx" and "Lynx" with x superimposed (Default)
From: [personal profile] onyxlynx
Har. My dentist noted that I seemed to have a lot of fibers between my teeth...