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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19027 Posts
November 09 2010 23:18 GMT
#1
Quick. Imagine you know a language. Let's go with English, because that seems pretty common 'round these parts. You can use it. In fact, you're pretty damn good at it.

Quick. Imagine you have a job that involves using English. Now imagine that your boss tells you that you need to know Don Quixote by heart within 12 hours.

What the fuck? It's in Spanish.

Oh that doesn't matter, they have the same alphabet.

That's my job, only with PHP instead of English, and fucking awful shit code that makes no god damn sense instead of Spanish.

My boss just told me I need to know a loan processing system, inside and out, by 9 am tomorrow. It's written like shit.

FUCK MY LIFE

/rant

***
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voss
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia146 Posts
November 09 2010 23:20 GMT
#2
If you can't do it, the earlier you tell him the better. Just let him know why you won't be able to do it in that time and suggest an estimate of when you will be able to do it by.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19027 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-09 23:21:39
November 09 2010 23:20 GMT
#3
I already fucking told him it would take several days. But he doesn't fucking listen. 9am. No exceptions.

I swear to god I was about 12 seconds away from quitting. Fuck me and my sense of honor.
Liquipediaasante sana squash banana
darkponcho
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States262 Posts
November 09 2010 23:21 GMT
#4
Tell your boss to F off and grab some beers and escape through the emergency slide.
life
Sayle
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom3685 Posts
November 09 2010 23:24 GMT
#5
Quit and start working for ICCup full time :3
NoUShutUp
Profile Joined January 2008
United States172 Posts
November 09 2010 23:25 GMT
#6
Good luck. I feel your pain as a programmer.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19027 Posts
November 09 2010 23:25 GMT
#7
Okay, addendum time.

Quick. Imagine you're you.

Quick. Imagine your boss told you that you need to know how to fly in 12 hours.

Quick. Imagine you tell your boss there's no way you can learn to fly a plane in 12 hours.

Quick. Imagine your boss says fuck the plane, learn to fly like Superman.

Quick. Imagine you say it's fucking impossible.

Quick. Imagine your boss says "I don't give a fuck, do it."*

What the fuck? I hate my job.

*My boss actually tells me this shit. "I can't make the history processing do that, because the tool you hired before me didn't know what the hell he was doing and the way the database is structured it can't be physically done, and changing the database will break everything else." Response? "I don't give a fuck, do it." FUCKING LITERALLY WORD FOR WORD.
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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19027 Posts
November 09 2010 23:26 GMT
#8
On November 10 2010 08:24 Sayle wrote:
Quit and start working for ICCup full time :3

I don't get paid by ICCup. I have bills to pay.
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crazeman
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
664 Posts
November 09 2010 23:33 GMT
#9
On November 10 2010 08:26 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2010 08:24 Sayle wrote:
Quit and start working for ICCup full time :3

I don't get paid by ICCup. I have bills to pay.


RL companies don't accept esports dollars
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
November 09 2010 23:33 GMT
#10
Find a better job. A boss who makes unreasonable demands just means he's technically inept, this is probably only the tip of the iceberg.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
OpRaider
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States307 Posts
November 09 2010 23:34 GMT
#11
I believe your mood icon is not correlated to your actual mood at all, time for a change.
it is what it is -day9 airplane story
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
November 09 2010 23:35 GMT
#12
Quick, imagine you were working at McDonald's getting minimum wage.

Suck it up, dude. I am sure you get paid more than minimum wage.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
Gummy
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States2180 Posts
November 09 2010 23:36 GMT
#13
Smile like you mean it and get to work, dude.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can't.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19027 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-09 23:39:38
November 09 2010 23:36 GMT
#14
On November 10 2010 08:34 OpRaider wrote:
I believe your mood icon is not correlated to your actual mood at all, time for a change.

It is now. [edit]Okay, I lied. There is no icon which can accurately express my mood right now. But there's a picture. This TV was in the wrong spot last time I was pissed off.

[image loading][/edit]

On November 10 2010 08:35 Sufficiency wrote:
Quick, imagine you were working at McDonald's getting minimum wage.

Suck it up, dude. I am sure you get paid more than minimum wage.

Yes, I do. But I don't get paid enough. I'm the sole developer on this project, which will (when complete) earn this company millions of dollars. I'm not going to see any of that, and the amount of stress by boss puts on me could kill a herd of elephants. At this point I actually wouldn't mind working at McDonalds. At least I'd get free fries.
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cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
November 09 2010 23:38 GMT
#15
On November 10 2010 08:35 Sufficiency wrote:
Quick, imagine you were working at McDonald's getting minimum wage.

Suck it up, dude. I am sure you get paid more than minimum wage.


Not if he has to work through the night without getting paid by the hour.
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
November 09 2010 23:38 GMT
#16
On November 10 2010 08:36 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2010 08:34 OpRaider wrote:
I believe your mood icon is not correlated to your actual mood at all, time for a change.

It is now.

Show nested quote +
On November 10 2010 08:35 Sufficiency wrote:
Quick, imagine you were working at McDonald's getting minimum wage.

Suck it up, dude. I am sure you get paid more than minimum wage.

Yes, I do. But I don't get paid enough. I'm the sole developer on this project, which will (when complete) earn this company millions of dollars. I'm not going to see any of that, and the amount of stress by boss puts on me could kill a herd of elephants. At this point I actually wouldn't mind working at McDonalds. At least I'd get free fries.

As far as I know, you don't get free fries.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
November 09 2010 23:39 GMT
#17
On November 10 2010 08:36 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2010 08:34 OpRaider wrote:
I believe your mood icon is not correlated to your actual mood at all, time for a change.

It is now.

Show nested quote +
On November 10 2010 08:35 Sufficiency wrote:
Quick, imagine you were working at McDonald's getting minimum wage.

Suck it up, dude. I am sure you get paid more than minimum wage.

Yes, I do. But I don't get paid enough. I'm the sole developer on this project, which will (when complete) earn this company millions of dollars. I'm not going to see any of that, and the amount of stress by boss puts on me could kill a herd of elephants. At this point I actually wouldn't mind working at McDonalds. At least I'd get free fries.


Don't you have some leverage as the sole developer? I mean if you stand up for yourself and they fire you, what will happen to the project?
Scorcher2k
Profile Joined November 2009
United States802 Posts
November 09 2010 23:39 GMT
#18
On November 10 2010 08:25 tofucake wrote:
Okay, addendum time.

Quick. Imagine you're you.

Quick. Imagine your boss told you that you need to know how to fly in 12 hours.

Quick. Imagine you tell your boss there's no way you can learn to fly a plane in 12 hours.

Quick. Imagine your boss says fuck the plane, learn to fly like Superman.

Quick. Imagine you say it's fucking impossible.

Quick. Imagine your boss says "I don't give a fuck, do it."*

What the fuck? I hate my job.

*My boss actually tells me this shit. "I can't make the history processing do that, because the tool you hired before me didn't know what the hell he was doing and the way the database is structured it can't be physically done, and changing the database will break everything else." Response? "I don't give a fuck, do it." FUCKING LITERALLY WORD FOR WORD.

ROFL wow. If he said he didn't care then just let it break.
Sufficiency
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada23833 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-09 23:41:47
November 09 2010 23:40 GMT
#19
On November 10 2010 08:39 cz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2010 08:36 tofucake wrote:
On November 10 2010 08:34 OpRaider wrote:
I believe your mood icon is not correlated to your actual mood at all, time for a change.

It is now.

On November 10 2010 08:35 Sufficiency wrote:
Quick, imagine you were working at McDonald's getting minimum wage.

Suck it up, dude. I am sure you get paid more than minimum wage.

Yes, I do. But I don't get paid enough. I'm the sole developer on this project, which will (when complete) earn this company millions of dollars. I'm not going to see any of that, and the amount of stress by boss puts on me could kill a herd of elephants. At this point I actually wouldn't mind working at McDonalds. At least I'd get free fries.


Don't you have some leverage as the sole developer? I mean if you stand up for yourself and they fire you, what will happen to the project?


That. I seriously doubt a company will foolishly hire a SINGLE developer for a million-dollar project. I think you are overestimating the value of your time as well as the project.

If I was a boss supervising this project that can bring me this much money I'd put 10 people, each one with 5+ years of experience with PHP to do it. I think most sane bosses would do the same.
https://twitter.com/SufficientStats
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19027 Posts
November 09 2010 23:40 GMT
#20
On November 10 2010 08:39 cz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 10 2010 08:36 tofucake wrote:
On November 10 2010 08:34 OpRaider wrote:
I believe your mood icon is not correlated to your actual mood at all, time for a change.

It is now.

On November 10 2010 08:35 Sufficiency wrote:
Quick, imagine you were working at McDonald's getting minimum wage.

Suck it up, dude. I am sure you get paid more than minimum wage.

Yes, I do. But I don't get paid enough. I'm the sole developer on this project, which will (when complete) earn this company millions of dollars. I'm not going to see any of that, and the amount of stress by boss puts on me could kill a herd of elephants. At this point I actually wouldn't mind working at McDonalds. At least I'd get free fries.


Don't you have some leverage as the sole developer? I mean if you stand up for yourself and they fire you, what will happen to the project?

The same thing that will happen to my job reference.
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