It’s the 1980s, and this pilot fish works in an accounting department, where he responds to company order to find ways to lower costs by submitting a request to stop printing six useless inventory reports. “We always immediately tossed them into recycling, and it would save about 1,000 pages per month,” says fish.
The response comes back from IT: “The inventory system is so poorly documented that it would cost more to shut down the print run than we could save.”
Request denied.
Flash forward two years, and fish has dumped his accounting career to become a programmer. His first assignment after transferring into the IT department: increasing the size of a key field in the mainframe inventory system.
from Computerworld https://ift.tt/37Kbosn
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