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Zaghadka <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> Nonymous bolted into comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg, wreathed in wicked,
> white hot flames, and screamed... 
> 
>>
>>"inferno2000" <infer...@my-deja.com> wrote in message 
>>news:a9390719.0411241738.28f509b8@posting.google.com...
>>> Joe62 <NOSPAM...@shaw.ca> wrote in message 
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>>
>>>> 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? 
>>
> For one work slippage, no. No firing.
> 
> For consistent failure to miss deadlines in the way you describe. Yes.
> Of course the employee should be fired. That's a given.
And how will it help you to get the job done? The problem in the industry 
is that it is very difficult to find competent programmers. While reading 
Usenet it may not seem that way, but when you need one, somehow all those 
good programmers seem to be happily employed somewhere else. And those who 
apply for the position usually have a good reason to be looking for a job. 
Something like function that reverses the string often appears to be 
unsurmountable challenge (it may look like a joke, but it is not). I think 
(but it's more of a guess) that this problem comes from the dot-com times, 
when the companies were hiring just about everybody. 

Alex.