What I did and thanks to all
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I met a few of those programmers either and the reason they could make it were: They had a big mouth. When you listen to them without any programming knowledge (and some bosses have no clue about programming) you could believe they are one of the best programmers on earth. The good programmers are often bad sales people. Most of them don't earn the money a good one would earn. That is an advantage for the bosses (who still have no glue about programming). The boss usually doesn't look under the hood. As long as the GUI looks good and it works (without to many bugs) everything is just fine. When the boss tells them to do something stupid what really makes no sense or isn't a standard, they just do it. They never disagree or try to point the boss to the right direction and of course everything is possible and not only that - everything is possible within 10 days (see first reason). The worst thing I've ever seen was a guy who named his database tables table1, table2, table3,.... The columns were named field1, ...2, ...4. He did it this way because it is so easy to loop thru the tables and columns. He always ended a loop with a goto either. When he left the company the whole code was useless and had to be rewritten. Sad but true. I am happy this is not my employee but when I read the first posting I got a gastric ulcer right away.
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Stephan Hoppe wrote:
When he left the company the whole code was useless and had to be rewritten. Sad but true.
In our company we don't even rewrite that code. Disgusting but true. Therefore my company is worse than yours,, I WIN! :laugh:
led mike
led mike wrote:
Therefore my company is worse than yours,, I WIN!
My company previously was Bar-F. beat that. ;P
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)