I don't give out passwords, not even to programmers...
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Just thought I'd share this experience. I was asked to take a look at an Access database, but the user wouldn't give me the password to open the database. He would like to come by my office every time the thing crashes, or I have to reopen it to type in the password. :omg: I asked for the password, but he would not give it to me. His response was, "I don't give out passwords, not even to programmers." :wtf: Hmmmm, so I did the only logical thing I could do. I said, "Okay, I'll see what I can do." Then I sent him on his way, recovered the password myself, and did what I needed to do with the database. ;) Anyone else have an experience like this? -- Dana Holt Xenos Software
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Just thought I'd share this experience. I was asked to take a look at an Access database, but the user wouldn't give me the password to open the database. He would like to come by my office every time the thing crashes, or I have to reopen it to type in the password. :omg: I asked for the password, but he would not give it to me. His response was, "I don't give out passwords, not even to programmers." :wtf: Hmmmm, so I did the only logical thing I could do. I said, "Okay, I'll see what I can do." Then I sent him on his way, recovered the password myself, and did what I needed to do with the database. ;) Anyone else have an experience like this? -- Dana Holt Xenos Software
Dana Holt wrote: Hmmmm, so I did the only logical thing I could do. I said, "Okay, I'll see what I can do." That sounds like a setup for a BOFH story. ;) At a prior job I asked our Official MSDN CD KeeperTM for the VC 6 CDs. He immediately got that "WTF is this guy trying to pull?" look on his face, like I'd just asked him to give me his first-born or something. When I said I needed to install VC on a QA machine so I could debug something, he grudgingly gave me the precious mylar discs, yet his face showed that he still didn't trust me. *shrug* --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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Dana Holt wrote: Hmmmm, so I did the only logical thing I could do. I said, "Okay, I'll see what I can do." That sounds like a setup for a BOFH story. ;) At a prior job I asked our Official MSDN CD KeeperTM for the VC 6 CDs. He immediately got that "WTF is this guy trying to pull?" look on his face, like I'd just asked him to give me his first-born or something. When I said I needed to install VC on a QA machine so I could debug something, he grudgingly gave me the precious mylar discs, yet his face showed that he still didn't trust me. *shrug* --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.3 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
Michael Dunn wrote: At a prior job I asked our Official MSDN CD KeeperTM Exactly. It was his job to safeguard those CDs and damned if he did not feel proud doing it. Someone gave him that responsibility, however petty, and he took it up. He felt important. Granted he is still a fool for not happily letting you use them without that anal probe. In my previous job the secretary was assigned to ensuring MSDN CDs were lent and returned in an orderly fashion (someone took a couple of home and never brought them back.) Man was she a Nazi or what! She made us fill out a form (with our name, date of lending, when we would return it, why we wanted it etc. etc.) and the oddest thing was there were only 5 people in the company :laugh: We eventually ganged up on her and she resolutely stuck to repeating "This is my responsibility and I take it seriously, don't make fun of it." *shrug* regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "Winning an argument on the internet is like winning a gold medal at the Special Olympics -- even though you're the champ, you're still a retard." - Kuro5hin.org Wrong but still funny
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Michael Dunn wrote: At a prior job I asked our Official MSDN CD KeeperTM Exactly. It was his job to safeguard those CDs and damned if he did not feel proud doing it. Someone gave him that responsibility, however petty, and he took it up. He felt important. Granted he is still a fool for not happily letting you use them without that anal probe. In my previous job the secretary was assigned to ensuring MSDN CDs were lent and returned in an orderly fashion (someone took a couple of home and never brought them back.) Man was she a Nazi or what! She made us fill out a form (with our name, date of lending, when we would return it, why we wanted it etc. etc.) and the oddest thing was there were only 5 people in the company :laugh: We eventually ganged up on her and she resolutely stuck to repeating "This is my responsibility and I take it seriously, don't make fun of it." *shrug* regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "Winning an argument on the internet is like winning a gold medal at the Special Olympics -- even though you're the champ, you're still a retard." - Kuro5hin.org Wrong but still funny
With people like that, I'm sure they're destined for heaven. Of course, they get to be the bathroom inspectors... ;P
"Think of it as evolution in action." - 'Oath of Fealty' by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
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Michael Dunn wrote: At a prior job I asked our Official MSDN CD KeeperTM Exactly. It was his job to safeguard those CDs and damned if he did not feel proud doing it. Someone gave him that responsibility, however petty, and he took it up. He felt important. Granted he is still a fool for not happily letting you use them without that anal probe. In my previous job the secretary was assigned to ensuring MSDN CDs were lent and returned in an orderly fashion (someone took a couple of home and never brought them back.) Man was she a Nazi or what! She made us fill out a form (with our name, date of lending, when we would return it, why we wanted it etc. etc.) and the oddest thing was there were only 5 people in the company :laugh: We eventually ganged up on her and she resolutely stuck to repeating "This is my responsibility and I take it seriously, don't make fun of it." *shrug* regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "Winning an argument on the internet is like winning a gold medal at the Special Olympics -- even though you're the champ, you're still a retard." - Kuro5hin.org Wrong but still funny
Paul, do they have the term 'jobsworth' in SA ? As in "Can't do that, it's more than my jobs worth" X| Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
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Paul, do they have the term 'jobsworth' in SA ? As in "Can't do that, it's more than my jobs worth" X| Elaine (fluffy tigress emoticon) Would you like to meet my teddy bear ?
Man, am I glad to have my own company... Sjoerd van Leent LPCTSTR Dutch = TEXT("Double Dutch :-)");