[hinkley]

This is the game, and people who don't like it still play it, which makes it worse.

Boss knew we were using our integration box for customer demos. I don't know how many times I explained that the entire team would be blocked by 1 pm on demo day, and some people would be blocked as early as 10 am, for want of a cheap box. I had to make a chart that showed man hours lost versus the cost of the new machine. Six weeks. The new server would pay for itself in six weeks. He said something sheepish about how he thought I meant a '"server" server', not a workstation class machine. Still don't know what he was thinking. A "server" server still would have paid for itself in six months, and he would have the luxury of me not bitching at him every time he forgot why almost everything that didn't get done on a Thursday slipped to Monday afternoon and asked me again about slippage.