Re: GDS Website development
I've no problem with people dress scruffy. Geniuses are sometimes scruffy. Idiots think dressing scruffy liberates their inner genius. It takes about 5 seconds to spot the diff.
The problem comes when the leadership are idiots and hire indiscriminately, ending up with mostly scruffy idiots. GDS - I'm looking at you.
Idiots who make claims like 'our genius coder Fred over there saved the Ministry of [redacted] millions a year with 20 lines of JavaScript'. Fred may well have been a genius - at least he had the grace to look embarrassed when this tipper truck load of bullshit was dumped into the conversation. True, the conversation had been mostly bullshit to that point, but when the elephant in the room takes a dump, it's time to hold your nose and leave.
After a quick round of resetting our dropped jaws, we said TTFN as politely as we could and got the flock out of there to the pub, where we resolved to never, ever touch anything from GDS except with the very longest of borrowed, and subsequently disinfected, bargepoles.