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I´m looking for a new job but the idea of living my current job depresses me in a bizarre way. I worked really hard in this place for a couple of years, working my ass off to make some existent spaghetti-awful apps work (I did manteinance of very poorly written apps). The apps now are working fine, but my succesor, who is the butt-licker of the boss, do he hates me (because I never let him mistreat me) and I know that by the day I leave, he is going to talk shit about my job and blame me for the faults and lack of program structure that predates me(my boss is a good programmer but he never reviews the code we program, so he doesn´t have a clue about who worked for good and who was there to surf the web and get a paycheck) Ahhhh...sh********************tt :mad:
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I´m looking for a new job but the idea of living my current job depresses me in a bizarre way. I worked really hard in this place for a couple of years, working my ass off to make some existent spaghetti-awful apps work (I did manteinance of very poorly written apps). The apps now are working fine, but my succesor, who is the butt-licker of the boss, do he hates me (because I never let him mistreat me) and I know that by the day I leave, he is going to talk shit about my job and blame me for the faults and lack of program structure that predates me(my boss is a good programmer but he never reviews the code we program, so he doesn´t have a clue about who worked for good and who was there to surf the web and get a paycheck) Ahhhh...sh********************tt :mad:
Reminds me of a Dilbert where Alice takes over a new position and starts by saying something like, 'I will now begin the obligatory 20 minute trashing of my predessesor's work." In other words, it happens to all of us sooner or later. And if you are replaced by a suck-up, then it happens twice as fast and twice as much as otherwise. Get over it and get on with your life. It's all you can do.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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Reminds me of a Dilbert where Alice takes over a new position and starts by saying something like, 'I will now begin the obligatory 20 minute trashing of my predessesor's work." In other words, it happens to all of us sooner or later. And if you are replaced by a suck-up, then it happens twice as fast and twice as much as otherwise. Get over it and get on with your life. It's all you can do.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
Agreed. The new guy wants to look good, and the quick path is to look at the old code and say 'this guy was an idiot'. I've never done that, and never would, but a lot of people do it.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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I´m looking for a new job but the idea of living my current job depresses me in a bizarre way. I worked really hard in this place for a couple of years, working my ass off to make some existent spaghetti-awful apps work (I did manteinance of very poorly written apps). The apps now are working fine, but my succesor, who is the butt-licker of the boss, do he hates me (because I never let him mistreat me) and I know that by the day I leave, he is going to talk shit about my job and blame me for the faults and lack of program structure that predates me(my boss is a good programmer but he never reviews the code we program, so he doesn´t have a clue about who worked for good and who was there to surf the web and get a paycheck) Ahhhh...sh********************tt :mad:
Happens everywhere to just about everyone. Not only from good or bad code, but also from someone just not understanding the code or the decisions that were made outside of the developer's control. Move on and be happier :)
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
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I´m looking for a new job but the idea of living my current job depresses me in a bizarre way. I worked really hard in this place for a couple of years, working my ass off to make some existent spaghetti-awful apps work (I did manteinance of very poorly written apps). The apps now are working fine, but my succesor, who is the butt-licker of the boss, do he hates me (because I never let him mistreat me) and I know that by the day I leave, he is going to talk shit about my job and blame me for the faults and lack of program structure that predates me(my boss is a good programmer but he never reviews the code we program, so he doesn´t have a clue about who worked for good and who was there to surf the web and get a paycheck) Ahhhh...sh********************tt :mad:
As others have said, don't worry about it. Software is complex and there is no perfect way to do it. Anyone's code can be picked apart and ridiculed.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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As others have said, don't worry about it. Software is complex and there is no perfect way to do it. Anyone's code can be picked apart and ridiculed.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Except mine.... :P
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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Except mine.... :P
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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That's just because I can't make Vista work. Oh, and my haircut.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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That's just because I can't make Vista work. Oh, and my haircut.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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I get ridiculed because I don't have kids so I don't follow local sports and that I'm over 30 and have more fun than my peers. Having multiple Mr. Potato Head's does not make me weird; just "eccentric."
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
I say screw them if they can't take a joke.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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I get ridiculed because I don't have kids so I don't follow local sports and that I'm over 30 and have more fun than my peers. Having multiple Mr. Potato Head's does not make me weird; just "eccentric."
Blog link to be reinstated at a later date.
My Paranoid Hubby wrote:
I don't have kids and I'm over 30
I don't have kids either and I'm 45. It worked out great. :)
My Paranoid Hubby wrote:
Having multiple Mr. Potato Head's
One of my faves.
My Blog: http://cynicalclots.blogspot.com
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I´m looking for a new job but the idea of living my current job depresses me in a bizarre way. I worked really hard in this place for a couple of years, working my ass off to make some existent spaghetti-awful apps work (I did manteinance of very poorly written apps). The apps now are working fine, but my succesor, who is the butt-licker of the boss, do he hates me (because I never let him mistreat me) and I know that by the day I leave, he is going to talk shit about my job and blame me for the faults and lack of program structure that predates me(my boss is a good programmer but he never reviews the code we program, so he doesn´t have a clue about who worked for good and who was there to surf the web and get a paycheck) Ahhhh...sh********************tt :mad:
Well, you probably don't have to worry about him writing code much longer. Guys like him end up in charge. :(
My Blog: http://cynicalclots.blogspot.com
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Agreed. The new guy wants to look good, and the quick path is to look at the old code and say 'this guy was an idiot'. I've never done that, and never would, but a lot of people do it.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
I've seen someone pull that routine, and loose miserably. Their predecessor was well respected and left only after he got burned out. The new comer's reputation was tarnished from the start by slagging off perfectly respectable code from a well admired ex-colleage.
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
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I've seen someone pull that routine, and loose miserably. Their predecessor was well respected and left only after he got burned out. The new comer's reputation was tarnished from the start by slagging off perfectly respectable code from a well admired ex-colleage.
Bar fomos edo pariyart gedeem, agreo eo dranem abal edyero eyrem kalm kareore
Yes, but even then 95% of this code was written by someone else, not me, and I don´t believe than anyone is going to check who is the author of the code, because they take me as the "owner" of it X| Well, I suppose I should take the advice and leave this situation behind. Cheers Gabriel
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I´m looking for a new job but the idea of living my current job depresses me in a bizarre way. I worked really hard in this place for a couple of years, working my ass off to make some existent spaghetti-awful apps work (I did manteinance of very poorly written apps). The apps now are working fine, but my succesor, who is the butt-licker of the boss, do he hates me (because I never let him mistreat me) and I know that by the day I leave, he is going to talk shit about my job and blame me for the faults and lack of program structure that predates me(my boss is a good programmer but he never reviews the code we program, so he doesn´t have a clue about who worked for good and who was there to surf the web and get a paycheck) Ahhhh...sh********************tt :mad:
Gabriel.P.G wrote:
my boss is a good programmer but he never reviews the code we program, so he doesn´t have a clue about who worked for good
Sounds like the problem, right there.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Reminds me of a Dilbert where Alice takes over a new position and starts by saying something like, 'I will now begin the obligatory 20 minute trashing of my predessesor's work." In other words, it happens to all of us sooner or later. And if you are replaced by a suck-up, then it happens twice as fast and twice as much as otherwise. Get over it and get on with your life. It's all you can do.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
I recall seeing that Dilbert. I really wish I would have bookmarked it, along with other classics from Dilbert/Alice/Wally :sigh:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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That's just because I can't make Vista work. Oh, and my haircut.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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Agreed. The new guy wants to look good, and the quick path is to look at the old code and say 'this guy was an idiot'. I've never done that, and never would, but a lot of people do it.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
Christian Graus wrote:
I've never done that, and never would, but a lot of people do it.
It's been my primary strategy for years. Unfortunately, the longer i'm here, the more of the old code is mine... :~
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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.