5 More Minutes

The Corner gets busted for fraudulent email posting.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if our troops did still think they were winning -- and that's not really a bad thing. It reminds me of my former life as a manager of computer technicians. What's interesting about computer technicians is that they always think they can solve a problem in 5 more minutes. No matter how long they've been working the issue, if you ask them what the status is they will say, "Give me 5 more minutes." I always liked that about my techno geeks, the absolute confidence and optimism that they could fix whatever they were up against if they just had 5 more minutes. Of course, my job in these situations was to make sure that their 5 more minutes didn't become an endless chain of minutes leading to a business damaging outage.