Strips

That's the fine art of emgineering: One striking sentence, demonstrating foresight and irony with the same words.


@ mcbure
>> I suspect top management for putting us middle ones into time troubles
>> on purpose... Just to know how we can handle it. So we have evolved :)

Then congrats to your top management. At least, "training" is quite close to a useful purpose.

The top management I experienced (=survived) created situations like that for reasons like stupidity, ignorance, carelessness, to cover mistakes of their own, a change of mind for no special reason (or maybe, because the wife said something during breakfast), or to bring people under pressure for easier control, easier handling and/or easier salary negotiation.

ewood
He said it to Geordie LaForge in the TNG episode Relics on how to keep your captain happy.

I think Kirk caught him on it once, probably in one of the films. "It will take two hours to fix, but I'll have it done in an hour"

I remember Scotty once explained the same idea that Wize did here. Was it in one of the old Trek movies? I want to say it was.