Slightly stumped again.

[Cheapjack]

Just read something, that seems to pre-empt one of my projects.

All I can do, is make my project even better. And, then go onto the next. And, make that twice as good.

If I had turned all my 800 plus ideas of the last twenty years into printed matter, a whole two trunksful of completed projects, I think I would have got somewhere.

Thing is, I don't know whether my projects are getting leaked, or whether I am thinking far ahead enough, or bragging too much in a Walter Mitty type way.

If any of you are in the same position, I would advise you to fully follow through with everything you do, don't tell anyone until you have completed it to a purchasable extent and pester till you get recognition.

And don't spend time looking out the window like Danny Kaye.

Anyone else ever felt the same? Or, do you always hit the mark?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Sounds like you're blaming others for your own failings and ineptitude. Stop blaming others and look at yourself.

Next.

 

[Gepard]

Every time I read a Cheapjack post, I feel like I'm reading some sort of coded message. Maybe he knows what the frequency is.

 

[Cheapjack]

I do look at myself, a good half of the time. That's why my ideas don't get turned into five stacks of A4.

I don't think I'm a quarter the horrible person my co-workers seem to think I am, I've just got a cutting tongue.

I've just got to grasp the nettle, and hope I will be waving to them from the office across the way.

I will look at myself, a bit deeper, though.

Thanks.

 

[ThankQ]

Sounds like you're blaming others for your own failings and ineptitude. Stop blaming others and look at yourself.

Next.

Huh? I'm totally lost. Is there something going on here I don't know?


As for CJ, I would say patent/copyright?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

If you believe they put a man on the Moon...

As to how your projects are leaking, I suspect "they" are hiding in your walls and tapping into your brain waves. I recommend the immediate purchase of a tin-foil helmet.

 

[Cheapjack]

I should imagine if I put up all my projects, in A4 form, I would get a candy bar for at least completing them, even if they stated the obvious. Considering the status of the office I am in.

Just wondered if anyone else feels the same.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I should imagine if I put up all my projects, in A4 form, I would get a candy bar for at least completing them, even if they stated the obvious. Considering the status of the office I am in.

Just wondered if anyone else feels the same.

I get raises and bonuses, you get a candy bar. To each his own, I guess.

 

[Cheapjack]

I should imagine if I put up all my projects, in A4 form, I would get a candy bar for at least completing them, even if they stated the obvious. Considering the status of the office I am in.

Just wondered if anyone else feels the same.

I get raises and bonuses, you get a candy bar. To each his own, I guess.

We could always swap offices. And, take away your 'networking abilities'.

Thanks, anyway. I do also spend a good part of the day complaining, too, I must admit. If you want a chair that doesn't creak, finish things. Harsh office practice spreads, though, even if you don't network.

Actually, I think if I get this one project done, soon, I will get a new chair.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Cardinal Fang, fetch the creaky chair...

 

[ThankQ]

I don't understand a damn thing going on in this thread.

 

[Saga]

someone set up us the bomb?!

 

[Shatnertage]

Why don't you post just one of these 800 projects for us to evaluate, if you want our advice?

 

[Cheapjack]

Well, the one I am working on thiis week, has been drawing- pinned a bit, but it's my own fault, cos I came up with the idea in 2005-8 and haven't finished writing it out. I can improve it.

The next one is better. I just have to think fiive generations down the line and think of something really good, excellent in fact. Unrejectable.

Therre must be at least five ideas that are sellable. I may be a complete Walter Mitty, I don't know, but I don't think now is a good time to have ideas. A few of those in management positions at the moment are a bit bankrupt. They look over your shoulder and then say, 'Well, WE knew that! God! It was just on the tips of our tongues to say it! that's why we're in management! Don't you know anything?'

Then they hover around, for more.



They're resoonsible for a slightly diilapidated office and I don't think they really want it renovating. I think it's always been a bit like that, to some extent.

All I have to do is roll stuff out. Regularly. And keep my log book.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I like how you always talk about these ideas but you have yet to actually describe a single one.

 

[backstept]

Have you got a Form 27B/6?

 

[Cheapjack]

I'm goiing to finish them, that's what I'm going to do.

 

[6079SmithW]

^That's the spirit! You go get 'em, tiger!

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I wish Cheapjack would share whatever drugs he's on with me, seems like some pretty wicked stuff.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm goiing to finish them, that's what I'm going to do.

The ideas, or your co-workers....?