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I refer you to Simon Travaglia (AKA the BOFH) for ideas on dealing with management, beancounters, consultants, HR droids, "users", and colleagues. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Forogar wrote: Where is the best place to bury a body?
IMHO, that's the wrong approach. I suggest instead promoting him to a position where he doesn't have access to source code.
/ravi
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That would work sometimes, but from reading this case it seems more likely to produce the PHB from hell.
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 Exactly
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: IMHO, that's the wrong approach. I suggest instead promoting him to a position where he doesn't have access to source code.
Senior project manager?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've seen such things too often to count. The more inept the employee, the faster they seem to get promoted at times.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: promoting him to a position where he doesn't have access to source code.
Company Historian, perhaps?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I work for butchers, I could probably sell it as pork.
However, if you make it look like an accident you may not have to hide it at all.
However, that may be too... Humane.
If you really want him to suffer, without breaking any laws, tell him you really need the application to print a report using Crystal Reports and he's the one who should make it because no one else is smart enough.
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Sander Rossel wrote: you really need the application to print a report using Crystal Reports in VB6 and he's the one who should make it because no one else is smart enough.
FTFY!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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And the bulk of the business logic must be done in VBA, with no plugins allowed.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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We're going to need some censorship here 
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Quote: using Crystal Reports
Even I'm not that cruel! Hmmm... that's an idea though.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Don't you have any dark closet where you can place him to review the biggest legacy project you can find in the gvnt division (preferrably in VB6)?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Someone needs to point out that "the emperor has no clothes". If you all let it go then your frustrations will just grow to the point where you throw yourself off a cliff (fortunately I did not live near any cliffs).
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Ah what a wealth of excellent ideas, you would think this scenario was common. The body to the piggery or dung heap but keep the head and put it on a spike outside the common meeting room (sorry RossMW this is close to your suggestion).
I do like the Crystal Reports suggestion and if you make him code it in VB it would just add that little twist of angst to the project.
However I would use a cluebat and duct tape. Belt him with the cluebat as he enters the meeting then tape his mouth shut. Watch as he turns beet red with frustration.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Fortunately, I live in a desert, so that's half the solution right there.
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Are you volunteering to dispose of the "package"?
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More like location scouting for a finder's fee.
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Forogar wrote: Where is the best place to bury a body
No, no, no! You've got it all wrong.
Take the head and mount it on a pike outside the castle walls as a warning to others.
The rest of the body dump in a culvert somewhere nearby, dressed only in a pink tutu.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Forogar wrote: Where is the best place to bury a body? Just asking for a friend. 
The garden of any rival, ofc.
Arguments; compare them, and both of you might learn.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If he's the lead, or there is no lead, then you're doomed.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I've got 20 acres in Arizona, and a backhoe. Let's talk...
Will Rogers never met me.
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So, you think he is overreacting.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Its a bit amazing and scary at the same time, how much traction a murderous idea is getting by people of profession which are generally known as introverts and socially awkward. Then again that might be the reason why.
I may just be scared because I'm the know-it-all in my team 
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