@tchrist Hard to say for sure. Given the reaction of the interim CIO, they were likely blindsided, which means it was not an ultimatum "resign or we'll fire you" thing.
At least not a planned one.
I think morale will increase significantly with him gone.
It would have been better for morale for him to have been summarily discharged, but this is a good enough approximation, at least if they can also dump the bogus NPS thing.
@tchrist Oh. He nailed 30% of our performance review on raising the Net Promoter Score over 4. He sent the survey to somewhere between 50 and 150 managers in the lab every month, asking them on a scale of 1 to 10 how likely were they to recommend IT to their colleagues. If they didn't respond, it counted as a 0.
They were a TV band from the '60s who didn't play their instruments and sucked for other reasons as well\. But they were more popular than The Beatles for a time.
It is the word *pejorative* that hurts.
My old boat goes round on a crutch
And doesn't get under way.
It's the time of the year
And the time of the day.
@tchrist They can't stop me. They can only hope to contain me.
@GeorgePompidou You said pretty gay. I don’t know much, but one thing I do know is that pretty and witty and gay tend to hang out with each other a whole lot.
@Robusto He is going to be so freaked if he ever looks at the period shots of Shaun & David Cassidy.
If you expect to run a script under differential privileges, you are insane to use anything that doesn’t have dataflow tracing built right into the language.
We use apostrophes to denote ownership:
I wrapped the cat's claws so he wouldn't scratch me while I handled him.
However, we don't use an apostrophe when 'it' is the owner.
The cat licked its claws.
This seems inconsistant - the claws belong to it, it being the cat.
Is there some f...
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We use apostrophes to denote ownership:
I wrapped the cat's claws so he wouldn't scratch me while I handled him.
However, we don't use an apostrophe when 'it' is the owner.
The cat licked its claws.
This seems inconsistant - the claws belong to it, it being the cat.
Is there some f...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…