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Hi All
My Winge at management / clients continues, the client thinks I have been "downloading porn on his time, not getting on with the software", While I have not! The Boss gave me the Well get this bit going it will keep 'him' happy. I now have the Boss confused because the simple thing to do (and it is simple) will not work, I have demonstrated to him and he is now confused too 
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glennPattonWork wrote: the simple thing to do (and it is simple) will not work,
Doesn't sound like a solution then.
glennPattonWork wrote: I have demonstrated to him and he is now confused too
I would be confused if you showed me something that does not work also.
If you hold off and deliver the finished product in the end they get frustrated about why it is taking so long to get any results.
I've found that breaking the task down into small incremental units works best, if this is possible. Then you can deliver these small increments in small timeframes and everyone gets a warm and fuzzy feeling because they see progress taking place.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I having to content with hardware that is flakey at best. I offered to send out bits as the were working, told not much point in that, don't waste time get something working!
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glennPattonWork wrote: I having to content with hardware that is flakey at best.
If the hardware isn't stable then you will never get anything to work consistantly.
glennPattonWork wrote: I offered to send out bits as the were working, told not much point in that, don't waste time get something working!
Time to start looking for another job.
If people won't be reasonable about what is happening as things are ongoing they won't be reasonable in the end.
You will be blamed.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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glennPattonWork wrote: the client thinks I have been "downloading porn on his time, not getting on with the software"
At that point of the discussion, I would have told 'The Boss' that he had 30 seconds to put this guy in his place, or I'm out of here. 29... 28... 27...
You can't put up with that sh*t.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The best bit he's on the phone now and the Boss man has is fighting for me by the sound of it. 
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Try this in your quiet office, hire a junior programmer and the let him eat Pork Scratchings[^] all day long whilst he makes crunching noises.
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Uh . . .mmmmmmm . . . No !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I like licorice, the good stuff mind not the over sweetened All Sorts rubbish.
I used to keep a bowl on my desk with a mixture going from simple Dutch through the bitterness scale right through to "Is that ammonia I can taste?". I allowed anyone to take them as long as they ate whatever they chose... 
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About that hint of ammonia on dark chewy pellets.
Sorry to break this to you, but think "cat's litter-box"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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You could give the Junior Programmer access to production.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: You could give the Junior Programmer access to production.
/ravi
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I once had a boss sitting at the desk behind mine eating apples with his mouth open.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I take it the emphasis is on once ... 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Why when you have a junior that drinks a boat load of tea during the day
I haven't made a regular round of tea & coffee for 3 month 
so you can keep your pork scratching scoffing junior to yourself ..
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I have no junior, but me do have a coffee machine next to my desk.
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Boy can he piss, I've logged him going 10+ times a day, so I daren't give you tea or coffee 
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I think that's what he[^] did. 
/ravi
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The fear of going to the toilet in your boyfriend's flat
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Fear? He should fear!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Shouldn't that be oscarpistophobia?
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Oscarpistoriitis : The medical term for an itchy trigger finger
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Jeez, no work for too long and then almost too much.
I have two jobs on, both are on regular release-review-update cycle so I can't feasibly do one then switch over. I have set my self the regime of working away until I stumble then switching project to refresh the thinking bits.
The only problem is one project is a VB6 to VB.net conversion/rehash the other is Java. Now if only I could pick up some Fortran or COBOL to go with this I'd be set. 
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