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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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Pete O'Hanlon19-Sep-12 9:20
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enhzflep30-Aug-12 23:46
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:smirk:

Nah, nothing malicious - though 15 or 20 years ago the story may have been significantly different. For entertainment purposes though, here's what I did send. Smile | :)


name=Simon 
email=peterpan@disney.com [spam-bot friendly address]
comments=All I can say is, I hope you're happy with yourselves.

I can tell you right now, here in Australia we pay our gold-miners a more per week than these guys were asking per month. Yes that's right - we get their current monthly wage every couple of days - about 3 or 4 times each week.

AUD $70,000 per year would be considered an insult.

You have metaphorical blood on the grubby hands with which you grip your money with so tightly.

If the crazy legal motion is successful, you may well have a very nasty time ahead. Africa isn't a factory, where you can pay people like FoxConn employees - it's a country that has the natural resource that you want. You certainly can't move the reserves offshore, call-centre style. You're bound to play nice, leave the country, or act like a bunch of total so-and-so's. It's your choice.

Obviously I'm some fool writing to you from afar, without all of the facts and without having consulted you for your side of the story. I will not be the only 'fool' that holds these views.
That said - it's likely a situation beyond your control now. I can only hope that the saga influences future decisions to the benefit of ALL involved parties.

Regards & Good Day,
Simon Beeching.

PS - you may wish to fix your website - there's no excuse for a Contact Us form to open MS Outlook (or any other client-side email program for that matter)
You're using ASP.NET for the website. This has the required tools to make posting this message on your website a seamless experience for your (other) commenters
The current solution is a cheap, half-assed method. Professional is not an appropriate work to use here.

It also means I have the 3 direct email addresses. These could be passed around and the inboxes filled with hateful comments the world over. I have no interest in doing anything of the sort. It is however a glaring example of a cheap, unprofessional approach. Seriously guys?!

And no, I'm not entirely stupid - I sent the email to each of the 3 addresses as email, CC and BCC (9 copies of the email in total)  since I understand that people typically have rules setup on their Outlook inboxes.

I felt the matter was important enough to warrant attention - this is more likely to be gained when any inbox rules are side-stepped. Again - this is information I shouldn't have but do, on account of the poor website implementation.

nmsimang@deloitte.co.za, evermaakv@dtss.co.za, GregoryN@dtss.co.za



EDIT: Did a couple of back-of-the-envelope calcs to better assess just what the demands equated to, I'm even more disgusted than I was earlier..

Lonmin annual production: 750,000 oz @ $1500ea (2,054 oz/day) - $1,125,000,000

3000 miners - paid $400/month - $14,400,000
3000 miners - paid $1,600/month - $57,600,000

Demanded increase - (1,600 - 400) / 400 = 1,200 / 400 = 3x or 300%

Current miner payroll as % of value of annual production of Pt: $14,400,000 / $1,125,000,000 = 1.28%
Demanded miner payroll as % of value of annual production of Pt: $57,600,000 / $1,125,000,000 = 5.12%
Make it work. Then do it better - Andrei Straut


modified 3-Sep-12 21:22pm.

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