[AccessD] Re: Determining Time for Project

Ack. I just realized you are in Canadian Silly service. Make sure you 
have a signed agreement with your boss or preferrably the personnel dept.
that you have a job to return to. I had a friend who worked with 
Transport Canada and she was seconded outside the Department for six 
months to a year to get a major air traffic control system back on track.
I insisted that she get a piece of paper saying she would return with 
same seniority and position. When she returned nobody wanted to know her
and they tried to tell her she had abandoned her position, without that 
paper she would have been in PSAC arbitration for months without pay.
Don't trust anyone without it being in writing , I have seen too many 
people in the Civil Service lie through their teeth.  It probably won't 
happen but
protect yourself anway.


Bryan Carbonnell wrote:

>In this case it isn't anything that resembles politics.
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>Its just repeating what was said and NOT what was meant. I KNOW there
>is a difference in this case.
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>Bryan Carbonnell
>bryan_carbonnell at cbc.ca
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>>>>accessd at shaw.ca 26-Feb-04 10:53:28 AM >>>
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>Hi Bryan:
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>There is nothing like 'small p' politics within a government or
>semi-govern-mental agency.
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>Jim
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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Bryan
>Carbonnell
>Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 2:30 AM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: RE: Re: [AccessD] Re: Determining Time for Project
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>On 25 Feb 2004 at 10:30, Charlotte Foust wrote:
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>>Non-developers never understand why it takes so long.  They figure
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>if
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>>they throw a few more people at it or leave out a few things, you
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>can
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>>do it in a week ... Or a month ... Or 90 days ... Or whatever.  I
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>It wasn't so much she didn't understand why I needed that much time.
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>She seemed to understand that, it's just that she didn't like it.
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>We are undergoing some pretty significant changes in the department
>and I get myself secconded for 4 times the amount of time she
>initially thought it would be. That's why she didn't appreciate it.
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>Oh well, the seccondment was *HER* idea anyway :)
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>Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
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