Red-Ringed Tupperware Party with (ineffective) Tin Foil Hats

Mark_Cohran wrote in post #3368860
I'm a project manager. I coordinate all the vendor training for our new factories. We have four new ones coming on line in the next three years and I have to make sure all the suppliers are ready to train all the techncians (thousands) that will maintain and support the equipment for those factories.

Mark

Once upon a time I would have been on to you like POTN on a Canon employee asking "What's the latest and greatest that hasn't been announced yet?"

But now it's just "Tell the vendor to call me when he has physical stock and can overnight it"

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #3368871
ohh no, your a PM, never had a good experience with them. they can never seem to manage anything but there own lunch

so from now on I am never going to trust you. I will trust everything you have written before today.

Would it help you if I told you I was an Electronics Technician before I became a Project Manger.

Mark

Mark_Cohran wrote in post #3368783
Our daugther and granddaughter moved in with us last week while her husband gets their new house ready for occupancy. Dang, I know now why we had our kids when we were young. An 11 month old just plain wears you out. It's all about her at this point. But it's so great to have a baby in the floor again.

Mark

It is soooo easy to get attached to those babies, isn't it? My grandson would rather spend all his time with me than anyone else. It makes it hard when he leaves, lip trembling and showing me the "I Love You" sign with his fingers.

Hehe, I too am a Project Manager, though my title is Techincal Project Manager - essentially I'm a PM but also act as technical lead on my projects - it works well, and I really enjoy it (was a software developer for the best part of 10 years (started in my spare time while I was at university) prior to this)

Mark_Cohran wrote in post #3368897
Would it help you if I told you I was an Electronics Technician before I became a Project Manger.

Mark

nope, you have crossed over to the dark side. Far as I am concerned you might as well be shooting nikon.

but getting back to it. don't really care, your posts seems to be sensible.

Yep looks like we got a Nikon user here.

SHHH, PMs are not all Nikon users - in fact, a couple of developers I know shoot Nikon! You can't tar us all with the same brush - some of us, because we've come from the other side of the fence, are pretty good!

you know some PM do know what they are doing. I have seen it once or twice. However I have seen some real idiots running projects. I sometimes wonder how they got there? ohh well never mind.

as for nikon, nothing wrong them, I just don't shoot with it

Sadly there are a lot more bad project managers out there than there are good ones.

My favorite joke is about the 4 cannibals that got hired by the software development firm at the height of the outsourcing craze. The boss looks the 4 of them up and down and says "Well, I guess we need the staff. You guys can get started straight away, and please note that we have a company-sponsored cafeteria with unlimited free food, so you guys need not eat any of our other staff as manpower is short."

A few weeks go past and the cannibals seem to be getting alone just fine, no complaints about their work from their team leader, and the status quo has been maintained. Nevertheless he decides to pop in one day and ask them how they are getting on.

"So guys, how's it going?"

The 4 of them all nod and grunt approval.

"Ok, that's great. By the way, did any of you see the cleaning lady today?"

The 4 of them shake their heads.

"That's fine.. I'll just keep looking" says the boss and moves on.

As soon as the boss is out of earshot one of the cannibals whips around and asks the other 3 "OK, which one of you morons ate the cleaning lady?"

One of them bashfully raises his hand.

"YOU IDIOT! For 6 weeks we have been eating software developers, 'business transformation architects', consultants, business leaders, project managers, and NOBODY has noticed. Now you have to eat the ONLY person in this office who does any REAL work, and STRAIGHT AWAY, they notice!!"


Yours truly having-worn-the-project-manager-hat-out-of-operational-necessity-at-work,
The Owl

Usually Canon shooters come from a good background and have very good leadership skills

Lightstream wrote in post #3369084
Sadly there are a lot more bad project managers out there than there are good ones.

My favorite joke is about the 4 cannibals that got hired by the software development firm at the height of the outsourcing craze. The boss looks the 4 of them up and down and says "Well, I guess we need the staff. You guys can get started straight away, and please note that we have a company-sponsored cafeteria with unlimited free food, so you guys need not eat any of our other staff as manpower is short."

A few weeks go past and the cannibals seem to be getting alone just fine, no complaints about their work from their team leader, and the status quo has been maintained. Nevertheless he decides to pop in one day and ask them how they are getting on.

"So guys, how's it going?"

The 4 of them all nod and grunt approval.

"Ok, that's great. By the way, did any of you see the cleaning lady today?"

The 4 of them shake their heads.

"That's fine.. I'll just keep looking" says the boss and moves on.

As soon as the boss is out of earshot one of the cannibals whips around and asks the other 3 "OK, which one of you morons ate the cleaning lady?"

One of them bashfully raises his hand.

"YOU IDIOT! For 6 weeks we have been eating software developers, 'business transformation architects', consultants, business leaders, project managers, and NOBODY has noticed. Now you have to eat the ONLY person in this office who does any REAL work, and STRAIGHT AWAY, they notice!!"


Yours truly having-worn-the-project-manager-hat-out-of-operational-necessity-at-work,
The Owl

haha, that's even funny.

Lightstream wrote in post #3369084
Sadly there are a lot more bad project managers out there than there are good ones.

My favorite joke is about the 4 cannibals that got hired by the software development firm at the height of the outsourcing craze. The boss looks the 4 of them up and down and says "Well, I guess we need the staff. You guys can get started straight away, and please note that we have a company-sponsored cafeteria with unlimited free food, so you guys need not eat any of our other staff as manpower is short."

A few weeks go past and the cannibals seem to be getting alone just fine, no complaints about their work from their team leader, and the status quo has been maintained. Nevertheless he decides to pop in one day and ask them how they are getting on.

"So guys, how's it going?"

The 4 of them all nod and grunt approval.

"Ok, that's great. By the way, did any of you see the cleaning lady today?"

The 4 of them shake their heads.

"That's fine.. I'll just keep looking" says the boss and moves on.

As soon as the boss is out of earshot one of the cannibals whips around and asks the other 3 "OK, which one of you morons ate the cleaning lady?"

One of them bashfully raises his hand.

"YOU IDIOT! For 6 weeks we have been eating software developers, 'business transformation architects', consultants, business leaders, project managers, and NOBODY has noticed. Now you have to eat the ONLY person in this office who does any REAL work, and STRAIGHT AWAY, they notice!!"


Yours truly having-worn-the-project-manager-hat-out-of-operational-necessity-at-work,
The Owl

This really made me laugh

Adcuz wrote in post #3369085
Usually Canon shooters come from a good background and have very good leadership skills

here, here

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #3369058
you know some PM do know what they are doing. I have seen it once or twice. However I have seen some real idiots running projects. I sometimes wonder how they got there? ohh well never mind.

as for nikon, nothing wrong them, I just don't shoot with it

Lol, too true - I've seen some awful PMs in my time - I thought I'd try and remedy the situation

theflyingkiwi wrote in post #3369096
haha, that's even funny.

it is - I've also only just discovered the 'multi-quote' option!

goatee wrote in post #3369107
it is - I've also only just discovered the 'multi-quote' option!

haha, just watch out, I hate it when people use 6 million quotes

You prefer 6 million posts with 1 quote?