AstroNerdBoy bloviates and rambles about different things.
I interviewed for an on-site System Admin job within The Company the other day. It is kind of humorous because before Project Skinny, we had such a team. However, company executives desperate for their bonuses at cost cutting wiped out said team in favor of sending more work to Brazil or India. The fact that all of the servers would…
I’ve been asked what the latest is on Project Skinny, so here’s the “skinny” if you will (har!har!). For my specific team, all of the vestiges of Project Skinny are gone, except that now we do the same amount of work with a lot less people — 40% less people. ^_^; Being the skilled people we are, we obviously can…
It’s been a while since I last wrote about The Company and Skinny Project. The Company removed some more people recently and as such, I’ve been returned to nights (which has good and bad like all things). Anyway, once The Company completed its second round of job removals, management decided to look at some things, specifically the function of the…
It’s been a bit since I last posted on the joys of The Company. So, here’s an update. The pilot phase of the Skinny Project has completed. As expected, some people were let go because that was the point of the exercise — prove you could make the lazy, overpaid so-called workers do more with less people AND with lots…
It was another exciting week working for The Company. The Cheerleader picked up a job outside the company and I guess my manager is just going to retire. However, the most important thing I learned about this week was the true purpose of Skinny Project — bottlenecking! As I mentioned last week, gold plating service is public enemy #1 for…