Quote Originally Posted by Fivetide View Post
... What I do is judged by how often I’m contacted; the less work I do means the fewer problems there are. Therefore, the less I’m contacted by users the more efficient I ‘am. I do quite frankly nothing, I may have put in two hours’ work in the last week and I’m paid pretty well for it. You would think that would make me happy, but it doesn’t. You see I’m only seen as the person who’s “system” does not work. Last year my system was down for 4 hours out of 8766 2 of which were out of hour’s maintenance, and two of which were BT’s fault because they cut through the optical fiber link. My entire year was summed up in a annual meeting as, system not available for 4 hours. Not .. system was available for 8762 hours out of 8766 or 99.2 % !!

So I want to make things , I want to make things that make people smile, that they want to treasure and keep, then pass onto their children, like my grandfather did.
Nice thread.... I can relate totally to that last sentence Fivetide!

As an old cynic I can recall thinking way back then... that it might even be worthwhile to let errors occasionally slip through just to get a bit of positive exposure from the fixing of the errors. I never did, but it struck me that the gauge of doing a good job was... well, a tad negative.