[Gllug] IT disaster in British public authority caused by operator

[Ian Norton-Badrul]

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Nix wrote:
| I've had a couple of contractors try this, but they got a bit shamefaced
| after I pulled a few lunchbreaks and after-work hacks and automated some
| things they said `couldn't' be automated, because it was neater that
| way.
|
| (The advantage of staying in the same place for years is that everyone
| eends up *knowing* that you're irreplaceable, and acting accordingly.
| Everyone other than the people who work the money pump, that is, but you
| can't have everything.)
|
| (And of course they're wrong. I'm not remotely irreplaceable. I just try
| to make people think that I am. *muhahaaaaaa*...)

Sounding like Chief Engineer Scott there :-)
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