Penultimate Day of Contract

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MarillionFan replied

13 January 2012, 00:05
Originally posted by fullyautomatix View Post

Is this the same off shore team that you kept harassing to refactor their code to use cursors in SQL when in actual fact simple plain old SQL statements would have sufficed ?
No doubt you will be back next week moaning about some body else to hide your incompetence.

I'll give you 1/10
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fullyautomatix replied

13 January 2012, 00:01
Is this the same off shore team that you kept harassing to refactor their code to use cursors in SQL when in actual fact simple plain old SQL statements would have sufficed ?
No doubt you will be back next week moaning about some body else to hide your incompetence.
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Mr.Whippy replied

12 January 2012, 21:53
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

Off to new gig on Monday.

I reckon you'll be posting by Tuesday lunchtime whining about how tulip it is...
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Freamon replied

12 January 2012, 21:43
Does this mean you will be posting more? Yay!
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MarillionFan replied

12 January 2012, 12:03
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

I'm looking forward to next weeks installment.

How the project is tulipe.
How I'm teaching them how to databind multi-dimensional arrays.
How I'm planning to leave.

You mean 'repeat'.
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suityou01 replied

12 January 2012, 12:01
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

I'm looking forward to next weeks installment.

How the project is tulipe.
How I'm teaching them how to databind multi-dimensional arrays.
How I'm planning to leave.

Cretin.
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suityou01 replied

12 January 2012, 12:00
Originally posted by eek View Post

FTFY.

Either way nice to see you've escaped Suity. Don't forget to discuss a few data integrity and quality disasters as you leave.

I've drilled it home with the PM. It's up to him how he manages it / bulltulips the client.
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DimPrawn replied

12 January 2012, 12:00
I'm looking forward to next weeks installment.

How the project is tulipe.
How I'm teaching them how to databind multi-dimensional arrays.
How I'm planning to leave.
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eek replied

12 January 2012, 11:58
Originally posted by MarillionFan View Post

Because I can afford food.

FTFY.

Either way nice to see you've escaped Suity. Don't forget to discuss a few data integrity and quality disasters as you leave.
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MarillionFan replied

12 January 2012, 11:53
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

I am less fat than MF now though.

Because I can afford the bus fare.
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suityou01 replied

12 January 2012, 11:47
Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

You and MF are like two big fat flies buzzing round all the tulip contracts.

I am less fat than MF now though.
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DimPrawn replied

12 January 2012, 11:46
You and MF are like two big fat flies buzzing round all the tulip contracts.
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suityou01 started a topic Penultimate Day of Contract

12 January 2012, 11:45
Penultimate Day of Contract

Due to get out of this crap hole tomorrow

New guy has started. Currently doing handovers. He very quickly got the measure of the off-shore team. He has told the PM they are rubbish, like I have been for months. He [PM] is starting to understand just how bad they are. Epic badness. Total ineptitude.

He asked the off-shore team to document any final questions for me. I have been answering them. I let him in on one of the questions for comedy value. Basically asking how they could understand if a record was related to another record. After a brief scan of the data model the project manager managed to locate not only the relevant table, but the relevant column. His powers of deduction were not that impressive though, as if you were looking for a table that stored "Fruit" then a table called "Fruit" would be a logical place to look.

Similarly a column on the table called "Related_Fruit_Id" may have something to do with related records. He as a non tech got it. The off-shore team who have been in possession of the logical data model, data dictionary and have had numerous walkthroughs still could not get it.

They have to be trying to be this bad.

Off to new gig on Monday.
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