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  Please GOD, Get Me Back to Being a Programmer. I was still the IT Applications Programming Manager at El Dorado County with a staff of 20. My manager, Ollie, while a good guy, really had no understanding of what my staff did and more importantly why what they did was even needed. Good news was he mostly left me alone but the bad news was there was a push from above to greatly reduce our staff and he was not pushing back. M eanwhile I was having the kind of fun one can only enjoy as a manager. One of my programmers, Jeff, who had opted to work a 4/10 schedule (four ten hour days with 3 off) came into my office to complain he was being shorted because he was now only getting getting 8 breaks (2 breaks a day) a week when he used to get 10. I listened to him and made an attempt to feebly commiserate by saying hey your right I was just on vacation and I didn't get one break during that time. I think the county owes me 10 breaks... Let's just say he was not comforted. ...