Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:02:47 +0100, D wrote:
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So you know the company president? You must indeed be a powerful man! Or
the president must be a special president who actually talks to
employees?
Or a bit of both perhaps!

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Small company, titles are cheap. When he retired my brother was a VP of
Morton Thiokol. He would point out that it was no big thing. Government
types like to think they're dealing with someone important so they made
him a VP.
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I've always worked for small companies or for myself so there was never
the formal hierarchy. You tend to invent titles that fit the expectations
of whom you're dealing with. When asked what I do my answer is usually
'programmer'.  Not very regal, particularly for those who remember when
'programmer' was the entry level position for people trying to work their
way up to the exalted 'programmer analyst' position.

Yes, this is the truth. In my company I don't even have a title, except of course, in the government documents where I'm the CEO by law requirement. But in my emails I don't have a title. Ultimate flexibility! ;)

He really was a good boss. I had a lot of latitude for skunk work projects
and he shielded his people from most of the political bullshit going on in
the front office.

This is the truth! When I have the opportunity I always try to do the same. I think little skunkworks projects are very good for your creativity and to keep you happy at work. When I quit my consulting gig building up a support department, the first things the owners of the company did was to cut all the skunkworks projects, and then they turned it from a customer service focused department to a technology department. The companys revenue have been flat or declining ever since. ;)