Morons!!!

[Mark Smith]

Does anyone else here have to deal with morons of the same calibre as the ones I deal with ?  
Sometimes I wish murder was acceptable if you have a good enough excuse!

Sorry have a bad week in IT...

[Blacklord]

Does anyone else here have to deal with morons of the same calibre as the ones I deal with ?  
Sometimes I wish murder was acceptable if you have a good enough excuse!

Sorry have a bad week in IT...

You should try dealing with marketing people........

[Stephane Richard]

You should also try programming when the boss is a sales rep ;-).

"You want your own Windows from scratch, no M$? sure we'll have that for you next week!" then they come and tell you hey, you got a week to make our own version of Windows!!!!!

to me that's the worst conditions I've ever had...2 years of perpetual stress and overtime trying to meet ridiculous deadlines time after time cause the boss well had no programming savy at all.  She couldn't even program her VCR...lol.

[6502Dude]

You should also try programming when the boss is a sales rep ;-).

"You want your own Windows from scratch, no M$? sure we'll have that for you next week!" then they come and tell you hey, you got a week to make our own version of Windows!!!!!

to me that's the worst conditions I've ever had...2 years of perpetual stress and overtime trying to meet ridiculous deadlines time after time cause the boss well had no programming savy at all.  She couldn't even program her VCR...lol.

I was reading this and thinking...... what's wrong with this boss?

Then, I got to the word "she".

Then it all became clear. :lol::lol::lol:

I've met a lot of very capable women in senior management roles.

However, when it comes to technology, it is hard to find many capable of grasping simple concepts and being an effective manager.

[Guest]

You should also try programming when the boss is a sales rep ;-).

"You want your own Windows from scratch, no M$? sure we'll have that for you next week!" then they come and tell you hey, you got a week to make our own version of Windows!!!!!

to me that's the worst conditions I've ever had...2 years of perpetual stress and overtime trying to meet ridiculous deadlines time after time cause the boss well had no programming savy at all.  She couldn't even program her VCR...lol.

I was reading this and thinking...... what's wrong with this boss?

Then, I got to the word "she".

Then it all became clear. :lol::lol::lol:

I've met a lot of very capable women in senior management roles.

However, when it comes to technology, it is hard to find many capable of grasping simple concepts and being an effective manager.

I'll have to say that this is a patently wrong mis-characterization of women in IT.  The most competent managers I've run across in IT have been women.  On the flip side, the most incompetent ones have been women, too.   I think the reason for this is training: Women who take IT training excel because they try harder; women who do not take IT training fail because they don't try at all.  

You should read the blogs at ITtoolbox, there are several written by women and a few of them also are managers.

[nikoniko]

You should also try programming when the boss is a sales rep ;-).

Even worse is a boss who was briefly a programmer and remembers himself as a coding god. He gives his programming team impossible deadlines, and then when they don't meet them complains that he could've finished the whole thing weeks ago if he'd been doing the coding himself.

Finally one of the programmers got fed up and told him what everyone wanted to, "Be my guest!", stood up, and offered his computer to the boss so that he could complete what everyone else had failed to deliver. Amazingly enough, the boss actually sat down and poked around in the code a bit, though it wasn't long before he excused himself to make an important call. Didn't see him back in the programming section again for some weeks after that.

[hydrophilic]

Rediculous demands results in rediculous code.  Unfortunately, too many managers don't seem to understand quality takes time.  Or maybe they understand but don't care (I've seen both).

Don't let it get to you!  Just write something to make them happy and when it crashes later, you can have a good laugh at your bosses expense.  If you like overtime, the disaster recovery should give you plenty.  If you don't like overtime, just forget what I said.

[nikoniko]

In all fairness, I should mention that the boss I wrote about above was pretty generous in most other respects. It's just that when his ridiculous deadlines rolled around, he started pushing it. Though considering the company was footing the bill for our lead programmer to talk long-distance to Denmark for hours every day, I can understand him wondering if the programmers weren't being productive enough. Funny thing was, though, our Dane was much more productive when he was on the phone than when he wasn't. I think it helped him tune out his surroundings and the tediousness of communicating in English, so he was more focused when it came to his code.

I remember that when the bill got to be too much, the boss finally said enough was enough and put a stop to the calls. That ended up being the year the company released their buggiest product ever. Permission for the calls was soon restored.