> stepped on by an elephant, run over by a Land Rover, dropped from a second-story window, buried in mud, soaked in a pint of beer, and roasted in an oven at 150 degrees c

Hey, coincidentally, that exactly describes what happened to me last night. And I'm still working.

I don't have any mod points, so I'm just going to say, beautifully illustrated!

Can you imagine if a manager was to pull himself away from his desk, walk down to the IT shop and ask an employee to, "show me," that he could make a cable, and then test that it was correctly made? Who's watching the stock price while that is going on? No one.

I'm so glad that we are staying focused on real CYA business practices here, instead of muddying the waters with talk of profit and loss, craftsmanship, or product quality.