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Re: EA treats it's employee's worse than it's customers!

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From: Nonymous
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 02:11
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"inferno2000" <infer...@my-deja.com> wrote in message 
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> Joe62 <NOSPAM...@shaw.ca> wrote in message 
> news:<krl5q0prljb2d5onn...@4ax.com>...

>> What a load of HORSESHIT. Schedule slippages are always management's
>> fault. In every case. By definition. It is management's JOB to manage
>> schedules, people, and sort out dependencies before they cause
>> problems. If it's not happening, you are not doing YOUR job. Don't
>> blame some worker because your project managers are lazy or
>> incompetent.
>>
> Just curious as to the reasoning behind this. The project manager
> assigned a chap 1 week to finish certain work, which he failed to
> complete. The project manager then has no choice but to reassign some
> of the work to others on the team, so now everyone has to work for
> some extra hours to catch up. And it becomes the project manager's
> fault? Or should the person who fails to finish the assigned tasks on
> schedule should be fired?

Depends on who decided 1 week was enough.  Did the manager ask the 
programmer for his opinion if 1 week was enough?  Did the programmer 
disagree but the manager said "do it anyways"?  Did the programmer agree and 
said "no problem; I'll have it done", but then failed? 
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