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Aurora · December 22nd 13, 07:33 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:56:34 GMT, d wrote:

On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:20:32 -0600
Recliner wrote:
Being literate, I might remind you of a "snotty arts type", but my degrees
were in engineering, and you won't ever find me quoting famous authors or
sound bites written by others (I preferred my own). Once I was promoted

If you prefer your own it must be pretty quiet in your office since you don't
appear to have any.

into senior management, it was the ability to write and present ideas and

I've generally found in my career that the sort of people who climb the
greasy pole are the ones not very good at actually doing the job they were
initially employed to do but had mastered the art of bull****ting.

I'm one of those perhaps in your mind odd people who view computer science and
engineering as a profession akin to medicine or law, not some bottom of the
ladder job thyats merely a starting point to getting a space in the directors
carpark.

calculator, FORTRAN compiler or Excel, that mattered. PowerPoint was more
important, and knowing what to present.

LOL ) Powerpoint eh? Oh dear, you poor poor deluded man if you think that
program in any way aids communication other than for the simplest dumbed
down comncepts.

Perhaps you wouldn't always be so angry and frustrated if you had gained
the ability to communicate effectively using your mother tongue?

Perhaps you wouldn't talk to much drivel if you actually did a real job.
Still, no doubt you have fun leveraging win-win enterprise visions in a
downsized holistic stakeholder scenario while running ideas up the flagpole eh?
I'm sure you also love to imagine you can "think outside the box", but you
probably wouldn't even be able to open the flap.

Boltar, when I am in London, I want to buy you a beer. You take down
the u.t.l. narcissist so effectively. You are a bona fide hero.
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