re: #172 Naso Tang

Dinosaurs, I’ve heard us described. We could come back if the hardware guys would limit us to 32k memory and tape drives, when skill and efficiency counted; but of course I love the freedom to be lazy myself, so don’t take me seriously.

Me dinosaur too and still at it, so I can tell you that what has changed is not just that efficiency doesn’t count, what they want is lousy work, not good work, not great work. If it just barely gets by, so you have to spend seven hours a day keeping the plates spinning, that’s what they like, that’s what they demand. So how do I keep going? I dunno. I give the customer what he wants, I guess, and sometimes fix up a thing or two while he’s not looking, but it’s still a battle.