[SATLUG] [OT] Friday Afternoon Woes

[John Champion]

It won't help you but I think we've all been there.

I once had a boss that hired me to be a web applications developer
(ASP/SQL). Well as luck would have it, they never hired a designer/graphics
person. So the next thing I know I'm asked if our web site is ready to
launch. I said launch? With what? We have no artwork.

He looked at me and said, "I thought you were a web developer" and I said
that I was but that as I explained to him during the interview I didn't know
how to draw and I repeated that he said he was going to hire someone to help
me with graphics, at least on a freelance basis. So he told me to have
something ready to launch by the end of the month or else (that was two days
away). I gave it my best shot and he was happy initially but then outside
public looked in and complained about how bad the graphics looked. He held
me responsible and started to yell at me. 

I told him he was nuts and left. I've been at my current job ever since
(more than five years).

Last I heard, he was let go and is still unemployed and that's been at least
three years.


-----Original Message-----
From: satlug-bounces at satlug.org [mailto:satlug-bounces at satlug.org] On Behalf
Of R. Tyler Ballance
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 4:12 PM
To: The San Antonio Linux User's Group Mailing List
Subject: [SATLUG] [OT] Friday Afternoon Woes

It's friday afternoon, I just received an email from the CEO of the company
I'm working with explaining that the software I'm solely responsible for,
that I've written for SUSE, Redhat, and Mac OS X needs to have all the
little remaining issues magically fixed before the weekend is out because
they sold something that's barely finished, almost completely untested, and
still hasn't been packaged for mass-deployment in any sense.

I start driving to San Francisco for MacWorld sunday morning.


I like on Blanco Rd, anybody want to come shoot me now? >_<

R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com


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