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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy McDowell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:28 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Management blah!
>
>
> I went through a similar thing on a gov't project. Canada is
> officially bilingual French/English. We were using URL
> variables and one of the managers -who was a francophone with
> an English degree- said that when people are on the French
> site the variables in the URL must be in French. So that
> basically meant writing the whole CMS again, but with French
> variable names. The whole team was English and therefore not
> allowed to officially translate. So our English variables
> would have ahd to been sent off to a translator to be approved.
>
> 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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