having a shitty one
did a bit of work about a year ago that has been used for something else. I did the best I could, but it still wasn't particularly good, although good enough for our purposes. Now there is a possibility that it will have to be reviewed by some others (the company who make the software I used, i.e. the experts) who will undoubtedly find numerous problems with it, causing the client to be pissed off with us, and potentially wasting a load of money.

I'm hoping that we've provided enough evidence that it is decent to the client, so they won't go for this external review, but until I find out I'm bricking it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:09, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Morning Vipros
Yeah, I hate it when things like that happen. Although the stuff I'm doing is internal to my company, I find that some of the things I do can go unused for months before someone actually tries to use it and finds a problem with it. By then, my mind has moved onto something completely different.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:16, Reply)

I hate worrying about things too, which doesn't help
I'm normally really calm and relaxed about stuff, but this has got my stomach in a knot. There's bugger all I can do about it (other than try and make the thing work better on the sly just in case it does get reviewed) and it's really getting to me. Stopping me from doing other work.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:19, Reply)

Thanks to bureaucracy, sometimes, the only way to make something work is to do something on the sly.
And yeah, I also find if I think too much about one task, it gives me an excuse not to I find it difficult to work on what I'm meant to be doing.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:22, Reply)

yeah, I'm finding that
we just didn't have enough of a budget or enough time when I first did the work, and I didn't have much experience at the time. Our clients are being pretty obtuse as well, which isn't helping matters at this stage.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:24, Reply)

In my line of work
I find the internal tools we use are often done by people with not much experience, leaving the end-users with a product that's more of a hack than a piece of engineering. It usually either keeps crashing or has a horrible user-interface, yet somehow manages to do the job.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 9:36, Reply)