Color me stupid, I thought the b*****s was the person's name. Note, my initials are B.S. In my case, the manager's name was put into the message replacing the b******s. Now that i understand your true meaning... I have a client who is paying top price for a website face lift. I was doing an A/B compare on the test release of the site in FireFox and IE. I must admit they did a good job with absolutely no difference between the two browsers. Curious as a cat, I decided to view the source code in hopes of getting the link to their Java Script file and any style sheets for future reference. Paging down in the source i found a hidden DIV where a developer left a large does of his explicitive filled comments regarding the client. HOLY-COW! I couldn't believe what i was reading, and can't repeat any of it here. Regardless, it's all pretty funny stuff.

We must have worked with the same guy! I once worked on a VB program with a couple of hundred global variables. When i complained to the original developer he said, "What's wrong with that?" Funny, this guy was an author of multiple VB books. Bill Selznick Bits 2 Systems LLC bselznick@bits2systems.com

NOT SO FAST !!!! Okay you think this is just horrible, and 99% of the time I would agree with you. However, let me explain my experience with this exact situation. I worked at a company where we had the usual daily meeting. The guy sitting next to be asks our manager about a request he's working on. The question went something like: "This process compares records in out database to the client file and performs calculation "A" which is saved to our database. So, what do you want me to do if a client record cannot be matched up to an record in our database?" To which the manager said, that will never happen. Being the logical programmer my buddy replies, "but what if it does happen?" To which Mr. Stubborn manager replies, "I just told you that it will NEVER happen. Hence, the origin of the error message. Given the circumstances, wouldn't you cut this guy some slack?