I woke up this morning while in the middle of a dream. It happens rarely. The good thing about waking up this way is that you remember the last part of the dream. Dreams, they say, reflect the subconscious thoughts of the previous day(s). I tend to disagree. Who would know what are your subconscious thoughts? They […]
Why is everybody starting with “Why”?
Why are the Virgin Atlantic stewardesses wearing red high heeled shoes? Is it to better serve the frequent flyers of the now legendary airline? It seems that even the legendary airline has lost its compass. The page referencing the high heeled shoes has gone missing! I have checked the Virgin website, I could not find it. I will […]
Ce qui est dû
A 18 ans, on m’a informé que je devais payer « ce qui était dû». Payer qui? On né me l’a jamais dit. Et avec quoi ? Pas de réponse. « Paie ce qui est dû». Je commençais par payer ce que je devais au collège. Puis je payais mon université ; il semblait que ça n’était […]
Thank God I am not called Ivan!
I am a busy executive. The bank has put me in charge of its administrative affairs. When I took the job, I imagined my day as a sequence of well-ordered steps, culminating in matter of fact decisions with clockwork precision. It is 8:30 in the morning. Monday. The weekend is behind us. Lunch was nice in the little restaurant in […]
Predatory Mood
When Dalo, the project manager, received the call that morning, she did not expect that it would last for so long. Frida, the IT manager at the hospital, was frantic: someone has been changing the prices of prostheses in some of the invoices sent to the insurance company. How was this possible? The billing application […]
Generic Transactions — Part 2
Unfortunately, this was only the beginning. As competition is getting fiercer, management requires now the addition of security features to the different modules. No cost price should appear in the warehouses, and the goods receipts procedure should be split in two steps: 13– The storekeeper checks that the items and quantities are those that have been ordered, […]