Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-12-13, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
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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.

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At a PPOE my job description was "programmer-analyst".  However, the payroll
system's job description field was 15 characters long (and all upper case,
of course), so it would print out as PROGRAMMER-ANAL.  I always thought that
was appropriate.
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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.

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I once had a boss like that.  When dealing with users' unreasonable requests,
his vocabulary contained a word that is not often found: "No."  He drove a
VW Beetle, rather than the obligatory management-style luxury car, which
raised him several notches in my estimation.

Being independent is positive, however, being independent, knowing the word no, and not being like everyone else can hamper progress towards the upper echelons of management. ;)