Re: Off topic - human stupidity

Hello Vladimir,

though this is an off-topic, but I share ur agony...... first we are humanbeings, then DBAs, developers, users etc. So u r welcome. In any environment, there are two types of creatures, workers and managers.... these managers (I quote to them, who are by heart managers and do not intend to get into the technicalities) take the decision and impose it on the workers. Only a super-worker (a lead in the development team or a chief-dba) only can defy them..... but if they too join the same band-wagon, all others are in mess.... not only u, we all are part of it........ some or the other time, everyone gets into this sort of trouble..... may be u can hear from some of our friends, that they also faced this some other time..........

best of luck....

• Original Message ----- From: Vladimir Barac - posao <vbarac_at_dkts.co.yu> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 3:25 PM Subject: Off topic - human stupidity

> This one makes me angry and helpless, and you wil laugh.
> I just could not resist, so I post this to the list.
>
> In my country we use both latin and cyrilic alphabet (we belong to Slavic
> group of European people). 99,999 of computer applications use latin
> alphabet, which is ok. We have latin letters in DB, too, which works well.
>
> But,...
>
> For some reason, ALL documents (human generated, machine generated) in
every
> company (state owned, private, no matter) have to be converted to cyrilic
> alphabet? The only official alphabet is cyrilic in our state. No arguments
> about that. Now imagine doing translation of forms and reports (some 400
of
> them), translation of data in DB, possible errors, cleaning possible
errors,
> waste of time, waste of time, waste of time,... Since we are telecom &
> electronics company, lots things here have their origin in English, so
> English alphabet + our specific letters where needed works well.
>
>
>
> --
> Author: Vladimir Barac - posao
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Received on Thu May 25 2000 - 06:43:17 CDT