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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.
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Hyrule19145 Posts
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.
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Tell your boss to F off and grab some beers and escape through the emergency slide.
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United Kingdom3685 Posts
Quit and start working for ICCup full time :3
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Good luck. I feel your pain as a programmer.
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Hyrule19145 Posts
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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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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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 
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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.
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I believe your mood icon is not correlated to your actual mood at all, time for a change.
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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.
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Smile like you mean it and get to work, dude.
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Hyrule19145 Posts
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]](http://imgur.com/J17L6.jpg) [/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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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Hyrule19145 Posts
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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