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    The synergies of Marcio 3: Corrective actions
    The synergies of Marcio 3: Corrective actions
    The synergies of Marcio 3: Corrective actions
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    The synergies of Marcio 3: Corrective actions

    By Mario Garrido Espinosa

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    Helping itself on big doses of humor, tenderness and realism, "The synergies of Marcio" manages to shape a demystifying (alongside wrecking) portrait of the life of computer engineers in Spain. Using as main character a professional by the name of Marcio (which is an infrequent name, so any similitude with the reality will be a coincidence), the author unveils for us a secret and closed world that we all believed very different: the project management, the resource handling, the effort rewards, the relation between the engineers, the coexistence in the office, the work trips, the endless availability... All the aspects of this line of work will be surfacing, without forgetting about the surprising personal life of the main character. Dive into seven of Marcio’s stories, and discover this affectionate and close character, and live through his adventures, narrated with the style, irony and cruelty of the folk tales.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateMay 25, 2018
    ISBN9781547531387
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      The synergies of Marcio 3 - Mario Garrido Espinosa

      I dedicate this book:

      To my fathers and brother.

      To all the computer scientists.

      To those who read this book by chapters in its first self-published version.

      This is not a vengeance, this are just fairy tales, like the Red Riding Hood;

      or perhaps anything that it is told here can sound believable?

      Fore note from the Author: In computer metalanguages it is common to enclose between the symbols «<» and «>» expressions that are either reserved word or more complex sentences. Abusing that semantics, in this book those metalinguistics forms will be used to denote descriptions or characteristics on something or someone that are more important for the purpose of each tale than its own name. E.g., inside the text me might find some quotations in the style of , instead of, let’s say, this more colloquial expression: Paco. This way, the seasoned reader —that would be you, right now—, would note at a glance that we are talking about a manager; someone who supposedly has some responsibility, a boss or small boss, a profile meant to manage projects and people; and that should be good at it, since he landed in that position, supposedly, by experience and knowledge. It doesn’t matter if his or her name is Paco, Torcuato o Priscilla.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, companies, places, texts, e-mails, events and incidents narrated are product of the imagination of the author, and any resemblance to reality is just coincidental.

      #003 CorrectIVE ACTION

      1

      Big companies are separated in departments. The computer consultant jumps from one to the other following the whim or need of the Human Resources department — a name that causes terror and diarrhea between the employees, as if it was some kind of Gestapo, but deep down it is just another department; one very powerful and cruel, that’s for sure—. At the top of the ladder of these multinationals there are a few thinking minds — we supposed very well-paid ones, since its work is one of very much neurons effort — whose purpose consists of modifying, every once in a while, the tree of departments that is the company structure. In turn, they are in charge of changing the names of the managers and the directors from one box to the other and, most importantly, changing the identification and initials of the department; also, if time remains, they also modify its activity, this way reaching the maximum excellence in their most important task. By this so simple way the engineer or programmer never truly knows who is in charge of him nor to what department belongs. Aided by some luck, he can know who the last ones were, but venturing if they still are is an assertion on which none would bet. So, it is almost impossible to locate in which position an engineer is inside the flow chart of the company in any given moment, exactly as it happens with the electrons of an atom, if we rely on the Uncertainty Principle of Heisemberg, which as we can see is of enforced application in Nature and in modern technological companies. I mean, of course, in Spain.

      For the tale at hand we need a couple of departments. Let's take as an example these two: Strategy, Communication and News y Lasting Solutions to Third Parties. The reader should not believe that the names are chosen lightly. The first one of them, SCN, includes the word news and that's why it will be formed by a staff of engineers freshly gone out of the university a few years ago, idealists, with the urge to work, learn and prosper, to conquer the world, to give everything. The second one, LSTP, has in its name the word lasting — since to mention old or fossil did not seem suitable — and, as its own name indicates, it is a veteran group, which has seen it all, which knows it all, which is beyond fright and which realizes — by its experience — that in this country and this office there is no future. But the reader should not believe that our first department is so naive. Its components have already gone by its first zero salary increase, its first not payed overtime, a couple of working weekends payed with a slap in the back and other kindnesses and funny anecdotes that this line of work offers to its professionals. Therefore, we have a young team, with the intention of forging a future for themselves, which has not lost the illusion yet, but which has already been tainted with — what they think as momentarily — the nonexistent compensation to its efforts and commitment.

      Since speaking of departments is too cold let’s look for a character located in Strategy, Communication and News. Let’s say we call him Marcio (which is an uncommon

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