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AJUK

AJUK

AJUK

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Why, oh why are people so stupid and have the memory capacity of single celled organisms?

I am having a little bit of minor building work done outside my house, a set of railings to replace a rubbish old wall. One of the posts needs to be located adjacent to the broadband cable box and the cable channel into my house. I pointed this out to the builder at the time of the quote and again before they started, this was yesterday.

Yep, you guessed it. I arrived back from work yesterday to witness the drooling moron digging the post holes in the front garden. As I arrived he confessed that he had severed my cable connection. I despair. :mad:

Telewest were very good and managed to send someone out first thing this morning and the technician chuckled to himself saying that they get it all the time. I just about managed the 12 hours or so without a connection to cyberspace. :)

Just a rant really, but what are your examples of pure idiocy in the face of clear instruction?
 
Recently a colleague of mine decided to take it upon himself to "fix" my work, by changing a line of code to what he thought was correct.
I changed it back and explained why it was as it was.
He sneakily changed it again before it went into release.
Now I have a change request from the client. Whoop-de-doo.
 
You want to watch you don’t get the bill for the repair. My company charge a minimum of 400 quid to repair a damaged electricity service.
 
wolvotim said:
You want to watch you don’t get the bill for the repair. My company charge a minimum of 400 quid to repair a damaged electricity service.
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If I do, you can guess who will be paying it.
 
Helium_Junkie said:
Recently a colleague of mine decided to take it upon himself to "fix" my work, by changing a line of code to what he thought was correct.
I changed it back and explained why it was as it was.
He sneakily changed it again before it went into release.
Now I have a change request from the client. Whoop-de-doo.
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I had this too. Almost exactly the same thing. After changing loads of my work, I finally noticed it when doing some reviews and threw a bit of a wobbly. He apologised, and then did it some more! I was on the verge of throttling him.

A month later I became his boss and he stopped. Eventually.
 
When we were having NTL broadband installed the guy decided it would be clever to drill through the SKY cable - the only reason we found out was we were watching him at the time. Not sure if he'd have said something or not!

He simply put the torn cable back together again with a few strips of gaffer tape, needless to say this didn't work and we had to get a SKY engineer to come out and replace the cable. DOH!
 
Mine is probably where I leave a clear note on the front of the accounts file for a client stating where I have left the books and records and then the owner of the firm (the boss of my boss if you like) comes in having a go asking where it is. Can he not read FFS?! :confused:
 
Helium_Junkie said:
Recently a colleague of mine decided to take it upon himself to "fix" my work, by changing a line of code to what he thought was correct.
I changed it back and explained why it was as it was.
He sneakily changed it again before it went into release.
Now I have a change request from the client. Whoop-de-doo.
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I caught a workmate doing that, and told her in no uncertain terms that she was a complete idiot. I have no problem with people pointing out to me something that they think could be changed, or done differently, or point out an error....but woe betide anyone who alters my work himself/herself.
 
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There's a "girl" at work that i have to show how to do the same thing EVERY SINGLE DAY.

"Ahh jeff i cant log in to my pc, password no good"

"Is the caps lock on?"

"ah yesssss so sorry"

repeat everyday for the past 4 weeks IDIOT WOMEN. ;)
 
Efour2 said:
There's a "girl" at work that i have to show how to do the same thing EVERY SINGLE DAY.

"Ahh jeff i cant log in to my pc, password no good"

"Is the caps lock on?"

"ah yesssss so sorry"

repeat everyday for the past 4 weeks IDIOT WOMEN. ;)
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Post-it-note ;)
 
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