What turds have you been asked to polish?

[escapeUK]

He'd talk at everyone from the CEO to the marketing people to me for hours about how he thought we should do our jobs, despite being demonstrably and grossly incompetent in his own limited responsibilities.

You just cant deal with intelligent men, can you?

[d000hg]

I think on balance she must be a bloody good developer because she sure doesn't charm herself into any gigs.

[Gentile]

You just cant deal with intelligent men, can you?

Just for clarity, those people with the PhDs, etc, that I mentioned were so good to work with before: they were all men. It's wee boys with big egos I've no time for.

[fullyautomatix]

Just for clarity, those people with the PhDs, etc, that I mentioned were so good to work with before: they were all men. It's wee boys with big egos I've no time for.

[Gentile]

I think on balance she must be a bloody good developer because she sure doesn't charm herself into any gigs.

Now, now boys. Do stop pulling my pigtails.

[speling bee]

Now, now boys. Do stop pulling my pigtails.

Looks like the remedial literacy set has taken a shine to you.

[eek]

Looks like the remedial literacy set has taken a shine to you.

BP and MF will be back later once they've finished detention.

[eek]

Separately Louie appears to have found a good un,

http://forums.contractoruk.com/accou...liability.html

[Zippy]

Well, here's the thing - I don't think I've ever had a job where there wasn't a turd to polish.

Oh, how I dream of somebody saying "Hey Zip, our co is doing really, really well and we're so organised and on top of things. Why don't we give you a few hundred quid a day so you can bugger about with whatever you fancy?"

If there were no feck-ups, we wouldn't be making any money.

[Gentile]

Well, here's the thing - I don't think I've ever had a job where there wasn't a turd to polish.

Oh, how I dream of somebody saying "Hey Zip, our co is doing really, really well and we're so organised and on top of things. Why don't we give you a few hundred quid a day so you can bugger about with whatever you fancy?"

If there were no feck-ups, we wouldn't be making any money.

I don't think that's true at all. If you've always had a turd to polish in each of your jobs to date, does that mean you've never done any new builds? Never been asked to augment a system that's basically sound with some new functionality, or to re-implement a proven but aging design in a newer technology?

You'll know when you're dealing with a true turd. It'll be a turd before you arrive, it'll be a turd long after you're finished or you decide to decline the work, and it'll be a turd until the day they put it in the bin and start over again. And at all points on that timeline someone with influence (usually its amateur author) will believe it to be the best thing since sliced bread despite all available evidence to the contrary.