"I've been asked to reduce headcount."
"To be fair about it I created a scientific algorithm to decide who goes."
"I thought you were firing the people with the highest salaries."
"Okay, maybe 'algorithm' is an overstatement."
EXECUTIVE BOARD ROOM
TED: our competitors are kicking our pasty white rumps.
Ted: Im bringing in dogcart to fire employees until we're stronger than the competition.
Man: How will the work get done with no employees?
Ted: Id better form a test force to study that.
The Boss: I put together a time line for your project.
I started by reasoning that anything I don't understand is easy to do.
Phase one: design a client-server architecture for our world wide operations time: six minutes.