LOL! How twu how twu....
I had sign offs from the head of sales, the head of accounting, the head of operations, the accounting/programmer liaison and it lasted all of three weeks. Oh, btw, each of the additional 5 applications that eventually needed to be ported over to the new commissions scheme were all brought up individually *months* later. So they didn't just screw up once, but 7 times. Now, don't get me wrong, I love clients. I've even had one extremely nice Czechoslovakian woman whose English was so bad that we had to communicate with PICTURES. And the funny thing is that went off without a hitch.... What I loved once was a client that refused to pay me for fixing an application because "It works now" Think about that ONE! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 7:23 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] .NET Developer > 'plain please then what I did wrong here then: Basic error: you forgot to translate from client-speak. When a client says 'yes' they mean 'mostly'. When a client says 'no' they mean 'not usually/yet'. When a client says 'always' they mean 'sometimes'. When a client says 'never' they mean 'until..' Like "We never have option margins in currencies other that the option currency" means "we forgot about this one guy who we always margin in USD regardless and he's our biggest client" and "We never manufacture taller than 4 metres because our build bays won't take it" means "except for that lot we sent off to Australia as kits" and "We never charge below cost" means "until we really want that leader.." Simple :) Brian 'always ready for remote working'.. On 11 September 2009 at 16:03 [email protected] wrote: > > Me > "Did you test it?" > > Them > "Yes we tested it, please install" > > Four weeks later: > > Them > "Hey the commissions aren't comming out for RMA returns" > > Me > "I thought you said you didn't want RMA returns customized because you didn't > do those?" > > Them > "We did them manually. We just started doing them 2 weeks ago" > > This continued for 6 more applications they SPECIFICALLY asked to NOT > CUSTOMIZE because they didn't want to spend the money. Then I had to create a > commissions routine that would go backwards through time to re-do the > commissions and come up with a delta. > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
