Getting in Early: A Secret Newtonian Law?

[DBA_bloke]

Why is it that whenever I get in early to attend to an overnight job that should have finished before I got in, it's still fecking plodding along, with yonks left to go?

[Swiss Tony]

If you want a job done properly, do it yourself!

[Troll]

It's done on purpose ... a bit like a gang of workmen will only work hard when the foreman is around.
Be assured that while you are not there the overnight processes are wasting time gossiping about you or talking about footy

HTH

[DBA_bloke]

It's done on purpose ... a bit like a gang of workmen will only work hard when the foreman is around.
Be assured that while you are not there the overnight processes are wasting time gossiping about you or talking about footy

HTH

I thought as much! Bastards!

[OrangeHopper]

More a quantum thing. If you hadn't been there to observe it, would it have finished earlier? Did you kick it into the longest-time-possible state?

[Churchill]

If you'd written it in assembler, the job would've finished before you even started it. Certainly would on my Cray anyway.

Threaded.

[Schrodinger's Cat]

More a quantum thing. If you hadn't been there to observe it, would it have finished earlier? Did you kick it into the longest-time-possible state?

Now that would be telling... stroke my chin and I will reveal all.

[DBA_bloke]

If you'd written it in assembler, the job would've finished before you even started it. Certainly would on my Cray anyway.

Threaded.

On your Cray! Titter!

[Old Greg]

Get a proper job and make your tech monkeys worry about this sort of thing.