No, I think she meant unfortunately we tightwads aren't buying enough copies of Profiler to allow her to quit!   

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No, I think she meant unfortunately we tightwads aren't buying enough copies of Profiler to allow her to quit!   

exactly

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No, I think she meant unfortunately we tightwads aren't buying enough copies of Profiler to allow her to quit!   

Yes. this is what I meant - I am still a member of coporate America - not my own boss like someone else I know

               

no one better complain about Invelos not being honest ever again!

Gerri - you should see this thread if you haven't already

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Skip is right be happy with the program for now. Ken may have another job or something else keeping him from working on this full time.

Also programing I am told takes a long time and even longer when you are doing it yourself or with just one or 2 other people.

Actually, doing the programming is the easier part of the job.  What is really time consuming and stressful is testing and debugging new code.  No matter how good you are at it, as soon as you turn it loose to users, they will break it because you can't possibly come up with every little weird way the users will try to do things with it.  That is why it takes years sometimes for a good piece of software to get a major upgrade, such as from version 2 to version 3, etc.

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Skip is right be happy with the program for now. Ken may have another job or something else keeping him from working on this full time.

Also programing I am told takes a long time and even longer when you are doing it yourself or with just one or 2 other people.

Actually, doing the programming is the easier part of the job.  What is really time consuming and stressful is testing and debugging new code.  No matter how good you are at it, as soon as you turn it loose to users, they will break it because you can't possibly come up with every little weird way the users will try to do things with it.  That is why it takes years sometimes for a good piece of software to get a major upgrade, such as from version 2 to version 3, etc.

As my old boss used to say "No matter how hard to try to make something idiot-proof, someone comes along a makes a better idiot!"

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Paul is right on there.  I was told to come up with a dialog box informing sales users that document updates were being downloaded to their computer and to please wait.  Remembering my own saying that you need to code to the lowest common denominator (and sales can get pretty damn low), I went through great efforts to come up with a paragraph that was clear, concise, and informative.

A few days after the code was deployed, I was told that the users were getting confused, to make it simpler.  I spent a couple hours trying to condense it down even more and yet still remain clear.

A few days after the code was deployed, I was told that the users were still getting confused and to change the text to "PLEASE WAIT".

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in Germany such person is acalled a DAU ("Dümmster anzunehmender User", which roughly ranslates to "Stupidest assumable User", or so). Is there some term for them in English...?

One of my old managers whose English was her second language once had a Freudian Slip: "When the losers, I mean users, ..."