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Evo
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We solved many problems by promoting people. Sad, isn't it?AlephZero said:We always used to do software updates on Fridays.
Then we got an "accident prone" programmer on the team, and we changed to doing them on Thursday, so if something went wrong we had Friday to fix it before it screwed up the weekend's computing.
But one day wasn't always enough to fix the problems, so we changed to doing updates on Wednesdays ...
... and eventually, we got back to doing them on Fridays, and working two 16-hour days on Saturday and Sunday to clean up the mess.
Then somebody had a better idea, and we recommended the accident-prone guy for fast-track promotion into management. Problem solved, permamently.