[gadders]

I remember when I was talking about some code my team wrote once and we'd managed to get an operation down from 6 hours to like 5 minutes.

Another manager said to me (fairly with hindsight) "If you get something down from two hours to one hour, that's an opimisation. Going from 6 hours to 5 minutes means it just wasn't finished."

[gameman144]

Finishing a project is one hell of an optimization, I suppose!

[Tao3300]

I hope you glared at him and said "do I need to optimize your ass with my foot?"

Sorry, HR rep, I thought we were just slinging pithy aphorisms!