Cecile Chi ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
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: What's a PHB? At first I thought of Powers That Be, but that would be PTB.
:
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/p.html#PHB
"P" Terms [The Jargon Dictionary]
PHB /P-H-B/ [Usenet; common; rarely spoken] Abbreviation,
"Pointy-Haired Boss". From the Dilbert character, the archetypal
halfwitted middle- management type. See also pointy-haired.
The PHB can be seen at:
http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/about/html/boss.html
ABOUT DILBERT | cast of characters - the boss
Another term is MGM, Meeting Going Moron, which isn't in the Jargon
dictionary. The FULL definition is in the attached comp.os.vms post.
The misdeeds of PHBs and MGMs can be found at:
http://www.bad-managers.com/
Bad Managers - Seeing the World Through Misanthropic Species
True Stories of Disastrous Projects and Cowboy Managers
--Jerry Leslie
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The origin of "MGM" (Meeting-Going Moron)...
From: [log in to unmask] (Old-Fashioned Staffordshire Plate...)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Digital statement
Date: 12 Sep 1996 16:46 EDT
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In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask]
writes...
>Guys like Gates and Perot didn't pick up their money selling the best that
>existed, they just sold what they had, but they sold it very well.
Maybe your connection went bad before you could finish, but you left out,
"by coveting to control and sucessfully controlling distribution channels
via cynical and unethical means, and then leveraging that monopoly into
every sucessive market, controlling it through de facto market share monopoly
and de facto proprietarily controlled standards used to lock in the users
and ISVs, and now, by jonny come lately illegal dumping shamelessly copied
software in order to squeeze a competitor out of a market that competitor
created by it's own innovation"
>- given the choice - then fine. But I cannot abide a bunch of @#&(!&@#(*!
>(fill in your own expletive) deciding for us what we do, or do not, get to
^^^^^^^^^
>run in our own facilities!
How about "suspender snapping three martini lunching mahogany tabled
conference room equipped with overhead projector dwelling golden parachute
flying bill gates specifying buzzword spewing computerworld and datamation
reading trend bandwagoneering meeting going morons".
Tom O'Toole - [log in to unmask] - JHUVMS system programmer
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