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Thanks for the fun!
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And, of course, this is TRWTF. Not that the title is unknown (it's almost irrelevant) but that all the other stuff that goes along with it is also unknown.
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I feel a little bit bad for Brad. I definitely know what it's like to be overwhelmed with enthusiasm, and not fully thinking things through.
I hope he learned his lesson, and is now thankful for the experience.
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Why was Word the sticking point? Even Notepad would have been better than the postit notes.
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I got the vibe that Brad is not very technologically literate and very penny-wise (definitely pound-foolish either way.) So, "write it in Word" came across to him as "Waste a bunch of money on stuff we don't need (because we were doing fine without (code is being written (because the sticky notes "work"))) (she's not doing anything worthwhile anyway (deflecting blame from her incompetence) (trying to undermine me))" and so he dug his heels in.
Word just turned into a convenient scapegoat when he couldn't accept that 'his system' didn't work to begin with.
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And this is why you pick your jobs carefully.
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I get that Brad is stingy beyond any reason, but why weren't they using a free MS Office alternative like LibreOffice?
Also, who is Jason? Is he Ross's alterego?
I guess I shouldn't even bother posting this because I swear wrote the same comment for the original submission.
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There is no sense making sense of a fool. For the workings of their mind resemble not the fine tuned mechanism of a clock as ours do but are more akin to a disgusting mess of broken gears and twisted springs held together by hot glue and ignorance of the fact they should not work.
Even attempting to comprehend them, to analyze and dissect them in search of reason or meaning is to invite madness into your soul and sorrow into your heart.
Better to simply accept the truth. There is no ubermench. But there is indeed untermench.
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Why even mentioning something like Word? Like "NobodySpecific" said, LibreOffice if you insist. But why not just use Redmine? I like it much more than Bugzilla or Jira. And it is free and fast and very, very good.
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Personally I like this statement: "If you can’t do your job with the tools you have, what kind of a programmer does that make you?" This opens lots of opportunities to give workers the wrong, inefficient, unusable, defective or imply NO tools, and then claiming they are bad workers because they don't get work done - oh wait, I forgot that this is already "best practice" and "established processes" especially in many office environments ("We're not doing IT here, we are accounting!" and keep doing double-entry book keeping in an unlicensed copy of WORD...)