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I'm quite impressed that your suggestion was accepted, in the company where I work this would never happen. An example: I was asked to build a system to keep t
by esc 15y ago
I'm quite impressed that your suggestion was accepted, in the company where I work this would never happen.
An example: I was asked to build a system to keep track of daily tasks of one of our teams, and to make sure all scheduled tasks were assigned to someone. As I was listening to them, I suddenly realized that the magnetic white-board on the meeting room wall was all they needed. I drew a table with team-members names and weekdays and used the magnets as tasks.
After some silence the team supervisor said it would work, but would not be used because:
a) it looks 'unprofessional';
b) it's 'insecure' because someone could mess up the magnets by accident
After some emails between my manager and them my colleague was ordered to build the system, he ended up spending about 3 weeks on it :)
- chime 15y agoIt was a relatively small company and people really tried their best to solve problems in efficient ways. I think they missed the obvious solution purely by chance.