Gonz, you are a fucking genius
a stone cold bona fide genius.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 20:32, 1 reply, 13 years ago)

=D
You alright Al? Watching the opening?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 20:48, Reply)

Yeah, a friend of mine is playing a drum in it, I'm hoping to see her.
How are your guts today?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 20:56, Reply)

Better than they've been all week, but I'm keeping my diet really simple. Turns out I got gastroenteritus, which is worst for me 'cus I can't fight it like normal people.
Plus I'm under proper stress at work, to the point where I think I'm gonna get sacked. I have a client who managers some huge HUGE brands, all fasion type stuff... if you named 5 major perfume companies at random, I bet half of them are managed by these people. Their boss is a proper "Devil wears prada" type.

I did a huge update for them, did everything we signed up for in the 'scope'/'quote' and then-some, plugged in loads of holes. But the scope didn't cover everything we discused, as we discussed about 200 emails between everyone involved, and that was just what I was included in. I've explained to them countless times and in many ways that I can't do any minor-updates while this is going on, 'cus the updates would be over-written... but I'll do them as I'm doing the main one.

They've also changed their terminology around a lot and threw in new things, such as one moment 'customers' are stores they manage, another moment they're employees for this store, the next its both, the next just 'area managers'. So I've done stuff thinking a employee needs a feature, but when really it was a shop. Then even today at the end of the project they've used totally brand new ones that haven't been mentioned once at any point, such as 'retail manager'.

I've seen emails from them saying things like "We expect you to be competitant to..." and "If you can't do one simple thing....".

I've worked 'till 10ish most nights this week to do it, for the last 3 weeks I was in the office 'till 8. I was 10 hours infront of schedual for the quoted work.

It was only wensday when we finally agreed what further stuff has to be done, and they expected it done today. And you know what? I did it, but it just needs to be tested properly as there are 50k employees and it needs to be done right.

IF they said the quote/scope didn't furfill their requirements to begin with, then I would have been able to adjust for it and do it in time, but its like they never read it. And they're quoting me back on things that are entirely out of context, and when I asked cirtain questions, the reply has been "You should know this already" - when I've only been onboard for a month or soo.

And the boss gave me a warning for telling that at 10:30 yesterday that I'll have to work from home, I didn't know if I could have worked from home until then 'cus, I thought I finished throwing up for the day. Like, a proper written warning.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 21:11, Reply)

Soz for too long, needed to rant.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 21:15, Reply)

This olympics cermony is pretty special though.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 21:19, Reply)

That sounds really shit.
Sadly it's par for the course with clients, they're all cunts and you have to properly make it very clear from the start of any contract what you will and won't be providing and what the timescales are.

And even then they won't pay attention. Sadly, you still need them to pay you money so you can't tell them they're all cunts.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 27 Jul 2012, 22:06, Reply)