Aug/02
2006

Excuse Me While I Destroy Your Work

The motherfucker who couldn't be bothered to assist with a project that should have been at its current state a MONTH AGO, now feels compelled to stick his grubby little fingers into every aspect of my work.

"Site X" uses a pre-fab web publishing system - something that has so many layers of templates, points of control and style sheet snippets sitting around that I gave myself a headache trying to change a simple font color yesterday. It's my job to skin this thing in a new design and have it ready to go in about a week. I'm designing on the fly because WHO KNOWS how many layers and tid bits need to be touched, given the extreme amount of plug-ins, whizbangs and fucknuts this software has.

And that's not even touching some of the custom mark-up that's in the templates themselves. Things like the "center" tag. And the "font" tag. Fuxkers.

I'm cruising along, meriily editing "the big stuff" when I notice that suddenly all of the table borders have automagically turned on - font sizes are changing and positions of elements which I sweated over shoving into CSS are suddenly changing. A quick email to said idjit garners a response of "Sorry - I'm out of the system now".

YOU DUMBASS - YOU'RE UNDOING MY WORK AS QUICKLY AS I CAN PUT IT UP! GO BACK TO COMPOSING YOUR OUT OF OFFICE REPLIES THAT I SEEM TO GET EVERY OTHER DAY!

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Comment from: u235 [Member] Email
I've been there - I can recall doing a "get" on the latest code out of source control (as we're supposed to do when we start working) and writing all sorts of code agaist it - only to check it all in once it worked and then doing a re-fresh of all files only to find shit broken. The golden rule is that if someone has something checked out - you don't make changes on that file while they're working on it.

Turns out the project manager did it - and when I confronted him with it he denied it at first then gave me some bullshit excuse on how I had to be alert to changes. Changes? I had the file fucking checked out - he fucked up and refused to admit it.

Yeah I know how that feels.
08/06/06 @ 09:43