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I think you acted as a professional. Give the correct advice and argument, but if they really insist you have to do what they ask. Just make sure you always have "prove" of your said advice.
Not often, but on occasion I write emails in the line of: "I strongly advise against said feature, but I will implement as requested." 
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When someone demands stupid crap from me (and is as susceptible to logical reasoning, and reality for that matter, as Donald Trump), I usually do it, but keep proof of be being ordered to do that crap so I can shift the blame, when it arises, to the actual culprit. That's IMHO the best way.
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I have run into this situation many times in a very long career.
This is typical of incompetent, technical management, which has been the bane of the industry since its inception.
The solution is to do as you have already done; keep copious notes of what you proposed and what you were told to do. Also ensure that all your notes are timestamped as to when you did what and when you were tasked with the assignments to override your proposals.
When you run into a personnel issue as you did, you will have your notes available for your defense.
I have fought many bad managers in my time and caused a lot of harm to their positions as a result (I got some fired.). However, unless you are willing to suffer the consequences (and there will always be consequences in business), do not take such an issue further than it has to go (ie: Your supervisor's boss, HR or Personnel).
If you believe that your defense of your actions is falling on deaf ears, look for another employer or assignment, since the situation will only occur again at some later time.
Me... I am hard-wired to fight bad or tyrannical authority. As a result, I spent a lot of time in my career defending others and defeating the stupidity and arrogance of technical management. Unfortunately, they are like bad politicians. Once you get rid of one bad apple another rotten one pops up.
It is a thankless fight but if more professionals were to respond rebelliously than such management may be more wary about going up against credible alternatives provided by their professionals...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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gjp1311 wrote: Was I really guilt in all of this? Should I have just ignored thier orders and didn't finish the task?
No. You did exactly as you should have done here -- you warned them, you kept records, you showed the records when they tried to blame you for their mistake.
Next time it happens, do all that again, but also talk to your boss before you perform the task that's going to break things.
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Are low resolution swine pigselated?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I bacon you Griff, stie away!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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No Sir Griff, they certainly are not. Oink an say that much.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I could not have porcine that one coming.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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What ham could it cause? In my readings, I sausage advice porking fun at punsters
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True. Some puns are larder than life.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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So, we're back bacon jokes about the fat again?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I sure he a grease with you.
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It seemed like a great idea at the time. But in rindsight I am not so sure.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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This is getting a little rough around the edges Griff.
And would pigsellated swine be edible to VGAns?
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Bacon!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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From the cybersecurity training:
Nonpublic information should only be saved to your network drive
Why do we even have hard drives then on our computers? IMO, non-public information includes source code, proprietary in-house and third party documentation, and so forth. WTF?
But this one:
The information on your computer is only fully protected by encryption when it is powered off or in hibernate mode. Simply locking your computer is not sufficient for encryption.
 Yeah, information is definitely "protected" when the computer is off. But how encryption protects your data when the computer is off is beyond me. Maybe I'm not as smart as I thought.
And unrelated, when I browsed over to norsecorp.com (live feed of cyberattacks, yeah, right) I got this (my bold):
This page is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site. We will keep checking in the background and, as soon as the site comes back, you will automatically be served the live version.
Dude. You really don't want to use "currently offline" and "Always Online" in the same sentence.
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Someone I know worked somewhere they were told to keep confidential files on their desktops rather than the C drive.
Edit - file as in data file not physical file, and desktop as in Windows desktop, not their physical desk.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: to keep confidential files on their desktops rather than the C drive.
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This is probably meant to be read "instead of anywhere else on the C drive".
There is a Windows Policy to backup the desktop at power off, and restore it at power on, so this makes somehow sense. If my computer crashes at work, I will have my desktop back including all the content just by logging on a new computer.
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No, they thought the desktop was some kind of special entity of the operating system that only the person currently logged on could access. They had no idea it was just a folder on the drive and the desktop an application that renders those files as icons.
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Not knowing the exact situation, I might still give them the benefit of doubt and assume they were using folder redirection. You can set up folders - and the desktop is a perfectly good candidate - to be rerouted to some server share. I'm not a domain policy expert, but I'd be surprised if it couldn't be done and that some organizations are doing exactly that today.
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dandy72 wrote: Not knowing the exact situation
They're idiots. That's the exact situation.
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That's a perfectly honest answer if I've ever heard one!
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Windows has Roaming Profiles which are copied back and forth when you log on or off. One issue my company ran into under XP was that the IE cache folders were in the user profile so the copy process would take forever.
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Roland M Smith wrote: Windows has Roaming Profiles...
Not by default it doesn't. If you set up the servers, Active Directory and Group Policy correctly it will have.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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