From: "Balloon Decor Australia" <sales@balloondecor.com.au>
To: "BHQ" <balloondeco@balloonhq.com>, "Mark Balzer" <mbalzer@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Re: What would you do?
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:58:38 +1100

Mark,
          It seems to me that by multiplying by  Pi the whole job
will just go around in circles. That is unless your referring to the 16th
letter of the Greek alphabet then I'm really confused. Unfortunately it's
really
all Greek to me.
Perhaps you should consider finding some way of incorporating Einstein's
theory, that way you'd at least be able to calculate the amount or energy it
takes to get the job done.

Ref: you P.S.

          Lucky us Aussies know an attempt at a good joke when we see one.
Most of us ( well the sane ones anyway) are not in the habit of shooting
back until we see the COLOUR of their eyes.


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----- Original Message -----
To: <balloondeco@balloonhq.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: What would you do?


> >I have been in simular situations (both being hired and also doing the
> >hiring) where the job escalated to more labour and time I calculated.
>
>
> We have a rule of thumb at wourk for estimating how long it will take
> to do a job that you've never done befoure: decide how long you think
> it ought to take, and then multiply by pi to find how long it will
> really take.  There's no theouretical basis for multiplying by pi,
> but moure often than not, it wourks.
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> Mark
>
> ps - Sean, I've added "u"'s 'tween all my "or"'s to make you feel
> moure comfourtable reading my response.  Let me know if I'm doing it
> courrectly  :-)  :-)  :-)
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