[aclug-L] Re: A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Branch Manager

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Thanks for sharing this one - it made my day!  ~Anne

--Geek by nature...Linux by choice--

David Carmichael wrote:
> 
> JOKE OF THE DAY
> 
> A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Branch Manager were on their
> way to a meeting. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly
> the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down
> the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a
> halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but
> unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car
> with no brakes. What were they to do?
> 
> "I know," said the Branch Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision,
> formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of
> Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can
> be on our way."
> 
> "No, no," said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and
> besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife
> with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system,
> isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
> 
> "Well," said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we
> should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
> 
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