Re: You Can't Spell "Stupid..."

On 2006-01-09, stevo <stevo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> mroberds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Peter <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>I was under the impression that a change of job approximately every 18
>>>months was pretty much standard for IT.
>>
>> I wonder if this is somehow related to Zbber'f law. Every 18 months,
>> the amount of suck involved with the job doubles, leading many to seek
>> unrecovery elsewhere.
>
> s/months/minutes/ surely?

Let's see. I worked at PFP for a period of two years, eight months
(approximately). This includes a leap year. 1000 days or so. 1,440,000
minutes. That's 80000 doublings of the degree of suckage. 40 doublings
equals around 12 orders of magnitude, so that job would have had its
sucktitude increased by approximately 24000 orders of magnitude from the
time I started to the time I quit.

Sounds about right. All back of the envelope, of course.

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