Bankers bonuses, chock full of zeroes!

[sasguru]

Bob is OK, but doesn't listen sometimes and I havr to go over the same thing 2 or 3 times.
On the whole I'm reasonably impressed with his work.

[Mich the Tester]

Bob is OK, but doesn't listen sometimes and I havr to go over the same thing 2 or 3 times.
On the whole I'm reasonably impressed with his work.

So your Plan G could be a 'telling Bob what to do' service?

[sasguru]

So your Plan G could be a 'telling Bob what to do' service?

Indeed. If Bob is going to be a code monkey, we need to move up the value chain.

[Mich the Tester]

Indeed. If Bob is going to be a code monkey, we need to move up the value chain.

Yep, and that's exactly what I try to tell IT nerds here in NL, but some just don't get it. Other possible approaches; you need to either be so specialised that Bob can't do your job (yet) or gain the skills to win the trust of and influence the top decision makers in organisations to do things your way. As for testers; too many testers try to turn the trade into rocket science with complex methodologies, formal techniques, ridiculous templates for every document and anal retentive discussions about how to make bells and whistles test reports in excel, when actually what the people at the top want to hear in a timeframe of max 5 minutes is what works, what doesn't work, what risks that brings and how you suggest they can get things sorted. Just being a competent coder/tester/sys admin won't keep you in work very long. Then again, best not to tell people to often as I wouldn't want to help my competitors too much.

[AtW]

Bob is OK, but doesn't listen sometimes and I havr to go over the same thing 2 or 3 times.

Ever considered that you are part of the problem?

[shaunbhoy]

Bob is OK, but doesn't listen sometimes

Yes, I can well imagine you having that affect on the unwary. Fall into a coma does he?

[BrilloPad]

I hear that UBS are considering cutting Kweku Adobeli's bonus.

Can't the taxpayer cough up another few billion?

[Mich the Tester]

I hear that UBS are considering cutting Kweku Adobeli's bonus.

Can't the taxpayer cough up another few billion?

Apparently they're going to make 2000 more redundancies than originally planned so as to make up the shortfall.