Beer tastes good

[plonq]

I managed to keep my new "professional" demeanour for almost an hour after posting this morning.  I made some changes to an application today and sent a link to the newly compiled executable to the project coordinator just after lunch.  About 45 seconds after I'd sent him the link, he called and said that the program was stopping and giving him a puzzling error message on the second screen.  As soon as he said that, I knew immediately what was wrong; I had forgotten to remove a hard terminate command from the program before re-compiling.  I'd put it there so that I could test out some field validation in the first screen.

I kept him engaged in conversation while I removed the break and recompiled the code.

Me: Can you read off the error code to me when it stops?
Him: Ya, hang on while I run it again.  (Sound of clicking, and then a critical stop sound.)  It says (reads off the error code).
Me: (Quickly moving the re-compiled code over to the production directory.)  Ah, well you're not clicking the "Execute" button hard enough.
Him: What do you mean?
Me: When you click the "Execute" button, press it harder.  It's pressure sensitive.
Him: (Sound of clicking) ...
Me: Did it work?
Him: Yes, it worked that time.  (A pause.  Slightly recriminating tone.)  plonq, we can't be putting out a program that's pressure sensitive.  We're going to have a hard enough time getting users to adapt to this program as it is.
Me: ...!

I'm so going to Hell.

Comments

[cwtyger.livejournal.com]

Plonq, you loser! :p *Laughs so hard at this.*

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

I am so proud of you.

[farlo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I didn't know that you did coding. That was hilarious, btw.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

LOL ^^
I've done similar things

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

hahahahahha!!

[bloofoxtales.livejournal.com]

It's hilarious, but I'm terrified by the fact that he bought it. ^^;

[unciaa.livejournal.com]

Sheer. Genius. :D

[kfops.livejournal.com]

HA! Silly users!

The only thing I can't understand is how you can keep your composure during the entire event!

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!

[tzisorey.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're going to hell - as a level 666 employee, you'll be able to do this sort of thing to evil people for the rest of eternity ;)

[orleans.livejournal.com]

Heh, that takes a lot of guts. Maybe you should be operating Nigerian e-mail scams ... you have a knack for finding the gullible. :D

[plonq.livejournal.com]

This guy usually isn't gullible, but I guess I caught him at an inattentive moment. I started in with my explanation, fully expecting him to invite me to go off and do something anatomically-difficult with myself. It caught me totally flat-footed when he actually bit.

[neverville.livejournal.com]

Like the concept of death to a simple vestigial mind, sometimes the "littlest" explanation is the best. Hehe