Gullible.
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Bungle, a guy I've written about before and who I really didn't like, was the victim in this tale.

In a pre-meeting meeting about the new mainframe system that the company was thinking of buying, I was spouting all sorts of technical bullshit and Bungle was nodding wisely as if he already knew what I saying. My boss was just smirking as watched Bungle lap up this stream of piss. Anyway, I told Bungle that when the IT director came in with the sales droids that we had to make sure that the Bastard Point of the new system was less than the Bastard Point of the old sytem.

"Err what?" says Bungle.

"The Bastard Point" says my boss.

"It's the time taken to reach the halfway mark in any major run. Like the overnight batch processing." says me chiming in. "If the Bastard Point of the new system is greater than the old, then we're wasting our time buying it"

"Ah" says Bungle. "I knew that"

And then the IT Director comes in and we all settle down to listen to the salesmans spiel. He woffled on about how wonderful the new software was, how it would save us time and money and listed all of the cool new things it could do. Then he asked if we had any questions.

Bungle stuck his hand up.

"It's all sounds very flash, but what's the Bastard Point?"


Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sat 15 Dec 2007, 7:23, Reply)