It Really Doesn’t Matter

By R. Richard

I start work at 8 AM, same as usual. I get the summons, from my Department Manager, the summons that I knew was coming.
I walk over to the Department Manager’s office and in I go, to face the Department Manager and, of course, Johnny.
The Department Manager snarls, “You turned in your resignation, why?”
I lecture the Department Manager and Johnny, “Late in the work day Friday, I solved THE computer programming problem for my project. Upper management knows what I did. Of course the customer knows what I did. Also, the senior programmers know what I did. Only I know why what I did worked and how it can be applied to other work. I am not to be rewarded, by the company, for what I did, late Friday. However, it really doesn’t matter. My outside value is very high, because of my programming breakthrough. My potential value to the company is also very high, because of my programming breakthrough. The only reason that Johnny is in this room is that he is to be the Project Manager, for the project for which I’m working. Tell me, Johnny, what was the programming breakthrough that I discovered Friday? Tell me, Johnny, what was the impact on the customer of the programming breakthrough that I discovered Friday?”
Johnny gives me a big, vacuous grin, “Well, I just took over as Project Manager this morning.”
I turn back to the Department Manager, “If you were going to promote Johnny to Project Manager, why was Johnny not in my computer room, talking with the customer interface guy? That’s a sales job, plain and simple. I was talking with the customer interface guy, doing a sales job, including a light technical explanation. Where was Johnny? No wait, Johnny has no programming background, so he can’t answer customer questions. If Johnny can’t answer customer questions, he isn’t doing part of the sales job. Even after he failed to show up for the sales job, Project Manager Johnny failed to get with me for an explanation of at least a technical overview. That last is a management failure. However, it really doesn’t matter, does it?”
The Department Manager snarls, “We assigned Johnny to be your Project Manager to take some of the load off of you.”
I say. “That’s interesting. Johnny, tell us what is the main purpose of the customer software that the project team is developing?”
Johnny gives us another big, vacuous grin, “Well I just took over as Project Manager this morning.”
I lecture the Department Manager, “For the last week people have been giving me nasty little grins, in the hallways. Obviously it was well known that management had assigned other than me to be your Project Manager, supposedly to take some of the load off me. Obviously management never prepped your new Project Manager. Tell me, one of the project programmers has a technical programming question, how does your non programmer Project Manager handle that, to take some of the load off me?”
I lecture the dumb duo, “One of the project programmers has a technical programming question. Your non programmer Project Manager can’t handle that. Thus your non programmer Project Manager calls a meeting, that ties up me, the programmer with the question and other programmers, instead if me handling the question informally, a lot quicker. Tell me, how does that take some of the load off me?”
The Department Manager snarls, “Obviously, we didn’t think things through enough, before we assigned Johnny to be your Project Manager. to take some of the load off of you.”
An enraged Johnny jumps in, “Listen punk, I took Linda away from you so easy. I can take a lot more from you, if I want.”
The Department Manager snarls, “Johnny, we don’t need any more of that.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Richard
• Release date: Apr 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463728918

R. Richard

I'm the co-author, with Sunset Thomas, of Anatomy of An Adult Film.I have 48 novels and over 299 short stories currently published.I spent my early years in the part of Los Angeles known as the South Central. I was known as Whi' Boy, which was sufficient to identify me in that place. I'm a skilled Kung Fu player, using a system that I learned from a Korean I knew only as 'Pak.' It would be easier to tell you the places that Pak wasn't wanted by the police, rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. Pak's Kung Fu system, augmented by some bits and pieces from some Chinese practitioners is quick and effective, or I wouldn't be alive today.My early education was mostly obtained by stealing books from the public library (I always returned them and the Librarian even began to provide me with reading lists.) I did go to high schools, but I never really learned anything there. I eventually graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, with a degree in mathematics.I work as a Systems Analyst and also make a part of my living as a professional gambler (legal in Nevada.) I write science fiction and erotica. My published novels are:Anatomy of An Adult Film (With Sunset Thomas)1. Second Chance: God Killer2. Second Chance: Sky Pirate3. Second Chance: Scroll Seeker4. Second Chance: King of The Islands5. Second Chance: King of Zaya6. Second Chance: Duke of Averon7. Second Chance: King of Golomon8. Second Chance: King Of The Sky9. Second Chance: Warlord of Ifrequeh10. Second Chance: King of Ariby11. Second Chance: King of Mesodania12. Second Chance: King of Avuls13. Second Chance: King of Kemet14. Second Chance: King of Zorran15. Second Chance: King of Two Worlds16. Second Chance: King of Averon17. Second Chance: King's Duties18. Second Chance: King of The New WorldAdventurer: Simulation ProblemAdventurer: Pannar ProblemA Programmer's GambitAmateur StripperBeach MurdersBondage HouseCorporate Sex SlavesFriday NightGo Naked In The SoftwareGrasshopper WinterInvoluntary NudeLayoffNot A HeroPirates of The KeysSummer of SexThe LakeThe Last Moon DanceThe Nude Adventures of Plain JaneThe Secret Life of Wanda WilsonTails of the Pussycat LoungeTo Keep A JobTopless RestaurantToy WhoresVix: The MarineWayward BoyShort Stories:A Christmas Visit

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