got walked offsite
did some work for a financial organisation through 3rd party, wrote an app for them.

a bit later on i went to work for them directly as a contractor, thinking that i would be maintaining my code. nope. some 18 year old asslicker who had like 3 months experience in C++ was fucking up my code. I on the other hand had no PC.

this code ran their telephone support operations and included stuff for generating inter bank transfers so you'd think they would care.

what the asslicker used to do was change the code and introduce a subtle bug that he would miss as he didnt test it properly. the code would go into production, then the next day somebody would notice the problem. he would work 'all day' on the problem and into the evening, making sure he checked out on flexi time at like 8.30pm after everbdoy else had gone. even though he'd fix the bug usually in 30 mins and you could see that from the sourcesafe logs.

but the next day hed come in and tell his boss he was here till late, and in this company it was a kind of dilbert-esque hell hole where you'd get awards for doing good work (and all these awards built up into stuff like having a parking space in the directors block for a month). so we as a team had to watch this presentation of a gold key to an arse who was rewarded for lying about the time he took to fix the code he broke anyway. over and over again.

this went on and on. finally after 6 WEEKS of not having a pc and watching this I went to the director of the customer service bit and told him the whole story about how he was being fucked over by the IT department.

next day I came in and found - wow - my PC! then when my team leader came in I was walked offsite. The irony is not lost on me...
(Lord Of The Dunce, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 14:14, Reply)