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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: 13 Dec 2024 21:24:18 GMT
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On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:02:47 +0100, D wrote:


> So you know the company president? You must indeed be a powerful man! Or
> the president must be a special president who actually talks to
> employees?
> Or a bit of both perhaps!

Small company, titles are cheap. When he retired my brother was a VP of 
Morton Thiokol. He would point out that it was no big thing. Government 
types like to think they're dealing with someone important so they made 
him a VP.

I've always worked for small companies or for myself so there was never 
the formal hierarchy. You tend to invent titles that fit the expectations 
of whom you're dealing with. When asked what I do my answer is usually 
'programmer'.  Not very regal, particularly for those who remember when 
'programmer' was the entry level position for people trying to work their 
way up to the exalted 'programmer analyst' position.

He really was a good boss. I had a lot of latitude for skunk work projects 
and he shielded his people from most of the political bullshit going on in 
the front office.