• Katastrofa (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    Once the sales manager cleared the scene, he rounded his desk, gathered up the invoices, and reached for his nearest resume.

    FTFY

    Quitting because a co-worker is being difficult? Grow some balls, man.

  • (cs) in reply to tim
    tim:
    in the UK we only have Tipp-Ex and i've never heard of whiteout.
    At least you don't have to use Twink. Or worse, ask to use someone else's.
  • beeneto (unregistered)

    Whiteout wouldn't have worked on greenbar would it, it would have been incredibly obvious, and how would a programmer experienced with financial systems make that kind of basic maths error? I always assumed these stories were at least based on reality, if they're complete fabrications then what's the point of them?

  • (cs)

    TRWTF is writing a large program in assembler but not bothering to implement 32-bit arithmetic.

  • Oh THAT Brian (unregistered) in reply to Grumpy

    Or, if you were lazy, you would get the narrower paper and since your printer didn't have the fancy adjustable platten, you simply put paper in the left tractor feed and adjusted the pressure so the paper wouldn't bind and start printing diagonally.

    Which worked fine until someone printed a wide report and didn't change the paper. After a few of those, the paper roller was coated on the right side with many layers of typewriter ink.

  • Abico (unregistered) in reply to Katastrofa
    Katastrofa:
    Andrew:
    Once the sales manager cleared the scene, he rounded his desk, gathered up the invoices, and reached for his nearest resume.

    FTFY

    Quitting because a co-worker is being difficult? Grow some balls, man.

    Maybe it's anticipating being fired for his terrible attitude and solution.

  • european (unregistered) in reply to TRWTF
    TRWTF:
    The real problem is that 2.5000 is wrong. He added three 000 to both 2 and 2.5 which gets you 2 thousand and 25 thousand. Also, if this was for Europe it should have been a comma in the abbreviated version. TRWTF is the fail programmer.

    You realise that Europe is not a republic (yet) and not all european countries use the comma for this?

    Stupid confederate ...

  • (cs)

    Should have just converted the numbers to strings and concatenated "x10^3" onto it. :)

  • Neil (unregistered)

    Why use kilotons when you can use gigagrams?

  • Shinobu (unregistered)

    TRWTF is Ellis Morning for signing off on this crap.

  • Mr.Bob (unregistered) in reply to Katastrofa
    Katastrofa:
    Andrew:
    Once the sales manager cleared the scene, he rounded his desk, gathered up the invoices, and reached for his nearest resume.

    FTFY

    Quitting because a co-worker is being difficult? Grow some balls, man.

    Making the co-worker quit is the correct approach. No need to battle your way through the day. If you're not getting along with your co-workers, fix it. If you can't fix it, then you decide if you can live with it, or leave it.

  • L.P.O. (unregistered) in reply to the beholder
    the beholder:
    justsomedudette:
    bkDJ:
    Speaking of writers... "Because he wanted to knock off at 3:02, obviously." Knock off...? As an American, the only thing that means to me
    As a non-American deal with it! You are not the owners of the English language or its colloquialisms.

    It means go home - wouldn't have thought it was that difficult to work out anyway.

    "wouldn't have thought it was that difficult to work out anyway." Work out...? As an American, the only thing that means to me is to put some time exercising in the gym, so what is the poster I'm replying to trying to say here? Anyway, I don't wanna have to think about this. Put other words in there place and post a new comment. Or else!

    ITYM "Put other words in they're place and post a knew comment."

    CAPTCHA: nulla. As in "Jag vill k-nulla."

  • Ubiquitous (unregistered)

    That reminds me of the time one of our programmers couldn't get the totals on the report correct so he just hard-coded them.

  • Anon (unregistered) in reply to corroded

    "It isn't possible" isn't allowed, you know.

    There are dozens of management books telling managers to never accept that as an answer, and your co-workers have all read those books.

  • The Darned (unregistered) in reply to Shinobu

    I am a Martian and only understand 'signing off' to mean strimpling my noodlepiff.

  • Robert (unregistered)

    The real WTF here is that he put three zeros at the end. What would you expect to happen if you have to format something like 2.5 ?

  • catherinalucy (unregistered)

    Preparing an stylish invoice template make the customers to attract.So,be the best in your work.

  • (nodebb) in reply to bkDJ

    Better eleven years late than never, I always say.

    Speaking of writers... "Because he wanted to knock off at 3:02, obviously." Knock off...? As an American, the only thing that means to me (when it doesn't take an object, i.e. "knock it off") is to copy something (possibly cheaply), so what is the author trying to say here?

    It means quit work for the day in this context. It may be a contraction of "knock it off".

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