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Originally Posted by Marshal Davout
On one base I wrote the police ticketing program and therefore had access to the databases; so for at least one girl I made her parking ticket "go away"; if she went to the movies with me ! Ha !
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I spent a great deal of my career writing software for companies in various industries. I've joked with friends that only three people in a company know the true financial health of it - the CEO, CFO and the programmer.
It's amazing the amount of information we can get unaudited.
I worked at a debt collection agency for several years and wrote their collection software. Once it went into production and was monitoring it, I saw the insane amount of money the agency brought in daily. The owner notoriously underpaid his people except for the select few at the top (I could see their salaries). I used it as leverage to demand a big raise or I would walk. He was unaware I could see this information. It worked. He doubled my salary and it allowed me to afford my first house.
I also wrote software to deliver airport staff a protocol to mitigate an emergency situation at one of the largest airports in the US, on the ground or in the air. Once real data was starting to be input into the system, I was shocked at the amount on incidents that occur with aircraft that we never hear about. Hydraulic problems, navigation system problems, smoke or at least the smell of smoke in the cockpit, etc. None ended with "disaster" but it sure did enforce my fear of flying.
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Originally Posted by Marshal Davout
I forgot to say I am writing the book; so that it might be adapted into a movie
later if it is picked up ( and I am so lucky !) HA !
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I sure hope so. The movies for the last 10 or 15 years are mostly awful EXCEPT for the occasional good one that was adapted from a novel, because the novelists can tell a good story. Hollywood is pretty much dead to me, so I rely on the independents to make good original movies, and they often do.
I have also discovered BritBox on my TV so I can watch British shows. I find their dramas to be very good and the plots well developed. Not all of them, but many.