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Straw Man

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28. Exactly.

Reply to The Third Doctor (Reply #7)

Sun Jan 8, 2023, 03:07 AM

Jan 2023

I had a supervisor once who had a saying that I learned to dread: "For this project, I'm going to have to clone you." That was her way of saying I was going to have to do twice as much work -- generally my job and someone else's at the same time.

I managed to last a year there by judicious application of the Peter Principle. Then I got the fuck out of the private sector and went back to academia.

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