Re: Once upon a site migration...
They don't listen do they? But sometimes it goes in the user's favour.
My client was a manufacturing company, about 150 staff, mostly on the shop floor. The board had insisted to one of the users, "Eric", a blue collar manager, that they must have a report generated from [my] system, ASAP-pronto-quick-sharp. So Eric asked me if I could produce code for the next day.
Of course, I'd give it a go, I said.
So, wanting to help Eric out, I pulled an all-nighter The reporting code was just hacked together, not pretty. It ran just fine, but it was slow, very slow.
I arrived on-site very early to install the update, before Eric was in, and returned home. When Eric ran the report, instead of the usual "It's working!" message, the pop-up read "Eric, go and make yourself a cup of tea...". When I spoke to Eric later he said he realised immediately that I wasn't joking and effectively had the morning off!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
