That feeling when someone in marketing insists that an unauthenticated user seeing a login form when trying to access a secure view is "too confusing".

We have a somewhat experience developer for whom we have to CONSTANTLY fix his type errors. He just doesn't seem to grasp the idea that there is a difference between integers, strings, floats, etc. and that when you don't bother with them, things get a little screwed up.

Granted, Javascript's typing leaves... well, everything.. to be desired, but STILL dude, this is basic shit. Come on.

Report comes in that there is "no purchase confirmation screen" in the app.

Well, yes the hell there is, so I use the test credit card to make a purchase. Sure enough, it works fine on my testing account. Just to be sure, I try a couple other test accounts. Flawless.

"No, try it on *this* account"

I try again on their stupid account. Works fine.

"Well I just tried it in Chrome and it worked, it doesn't work in Firefox"

I was already testing in Firefox...

Wasting my time over a corrupted browser profile.. GTFO, why are you even a tester?

Things You Learn After A While #464:

Tasks take as long as they take.

Then one week, everything lines up, you're in a groove, make almost no mistakes, and get your shit written in half the time it normally takes.

Management now considers this the standard of timeliness and gets upset when tasks take a normal amount of time.

Moral: Always make sure you take at least as long as you said it would take to complete a task.