Fortunately someone quickly said, well, lets just go with the first three letters of each variable as they're pretty much the same in English and French. It took days of proposing this to this obstinate manager, but she finally gave in. Maybe we should have gone her way; it would have doubled the contract length and value.
Ever hear of the PITA principle - promoted to the highest level of your incompetence.
> I worked on an app for imaging and documenting stuff. Two weeks ago,
> things went really wrong, because people were unorganized,
> miscommunication, plain stupidity, or whatever....there were
> duplicates of images scattered all around and all sorts of stuff.
>
> Last week, had a talk with manager, explained exactly what happened (i
> gave you the reasons above!), and made it clear that the app was not
> at fault. But he says a bunch of bull, slightly implying that the app
> could be at fault, even though he has never touched the app before!
> So then he goes on to pick on the app, lookin through the hard drives
> and folders where the images were. And then, he looks like he had a
> lightbulb over his head..
>
> "What's that?!" he says.
>
> Ok let me explain..... the images are separated into folders that have
> the same IDs, and the name of the folder is the name of the IDs. like
> 3454. Always 4 digits. So he goes on...
>
> "Why does it have a '_NS' after it?" he asks. basically the folders
> were renamed as [ID]_NS example... "3454_NS".
>
> I explained to him that it it wasto get rid of a cache problem in the
> IE image viewing plugin (after CF renamed the images, the image viewer
> would still pull images from memory, and not the actual disk, soyou
> dont get the current stuff, thats why i had the folders renamed, after
> the images in each folder had been worked on/renamed) That problem
> was fixed a week before.
>
> So you know what he says? he says "i don't want it like that. We
> can't have it looking like that when we give it to the clients"
>
> I told him "But it wont be like that. When the images are ready to be
> released, the _NS will be taken off automatically. This is just the
> backend stuff you don't need to worry about it"
>
> Dude keeps insisting that I take it off!! I thought he was crazy!
> Like was he just doing it to make himself feel that he's fixed
> something?!!! AHHH!!!!!!!!
>
>
> Things turn outgood in the end tho. But have any of you gone through
> anything like
this?!!!!
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