Posted on 08/07/2005 by BoredAndDangerous
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15 Years ago I worked as a state employee for an organization that monitored Mental Hospitals. Most of the people I worked with would have been good patients.
One of my assignments was to come up with a database system that would allow them to quickly search documents and cases. I finished the assignment within a month and then designed an instruction manual.
The agency ran a mini computer system which was pretty limited except for crunching numbers but it did have one outstanding package that offered much of the features that photoshop offers now. Using that, I used a photo of the director to put on the cover page.
Everyone liked the manual but we had one meeting to discuss the coverpage, then another, then another, etc.
Over a three month period we met weekly to change the background, move the director to the left. Put books in the background, etc.
I became so bored that I added details you could only see if you used the graphics package and zoomed in close.
I gave the director an earring, I then added a tatoo to his arm (Latin Till I Die), I also gave him nose hair and made him cross eyed.
After six months there I left out of complete boredom because I had nothing else to do but work on that insane manual!
oaklander (08/10/2005)
GROAN! I got stuck on a project like that too once. I ended up putting easter eggs in programs to amuse myself. That's what they get for being so caught up in their own mental meetings and details that really don't mean squat in the grand scheme of things. Companies should get rid of the thinkers and hire more doers. I think the tattoo idea is hysterical!
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