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By: jgarry

I’ve seen the tactic fail at a large site. It wound up being a power one-upmanship, with each damager making more of all the other’s people required to be onsite. The more common downside is the...

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By: mwidlake

Thanks for the word of warning Joel, I suppose you could end up in a pointless power struggle in some situations and making a stand does upset people. But my opinion is these people deserved to be...

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By: twoknightsthenight

Not sure if you’ve run across this but some use the “emergency” tag to evade doing standard documentation and testing. Yes, I know it should be even more required but that’s how some see it. But if...

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By: mwidlake

Absolutely Kevin, “yes” to having seen the use of the Emergency Change being abused to circumvent the testing and documentation route. I think that comes into what Joel was talking about in his first...

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By: Neil Chandler

Are you spying on me at work? How do you know what I did last week (sort-of)?

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By: bigdaveroberts

I was even more nieve. A manager (not mine) asked me for a weekly report, I obliged. Six weeks later the manager approached me and stated that I looked overworked and would this report make my life...

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