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Written by Grumpo
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The Wizard of Oz crossed my career path several times at two companies. He can best be described as a pompous ass whose ego should have had its own zip code.
I first worked with Oz at a business management software company in the Sacramento area (I will call them Monks Software)1. He was one of the two system programmers. I took a job as a customer support engineer dealing with system level installations and problems. Monks didn't have all of the computer brands of our customers (Sun, IBM, DEC, HP, MIPS, AT&T, etc.), so the software was loaded and compiled on our customers' Unix systems.
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Written by Grumpo
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/Ed (that is how he would sign his email) was a good boss.
Oh, sometimes he didn't remember what he told you to do and would chide you when you did exactly that, but he was a "mensch" - a decent human being.
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Big D, the Abnormal Manager |
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Written by Grumpo
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 Big D was the nephew of one of the founders of a company I worked for in the Sacramento area. He had just graduated with a BSEE from Texas A & M and, like a typical 22 year-old, he knew everything about everything, or so he thought. He may have understood a little something about hardware, but he didn't have a clue about the software development process or management. And, of course, the upper management of the company made him a software manager. Nepotism: the great enemy of the start-up company.
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 Mikey was hard to work for, but he rewarded your hard work with the greatest reward in the business realm: money. Do a good job for him and you got bonuses, large bonuses. |
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Like the sirens luring Odysseus toward the rocky shoals, The Lyre persuaded me to return to a company that I left previously with no intention of returning.
Deep down I knew I was making a mistake, but the project The Lyre proposed in his slick, soft-spoken manner was so interesting that I could not resist. He assured me that he would be "the best boss I ever had." That was his first lie.
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