Oooh, I just love it when you've spent countless hours trying to figure out the business process and use cases with a user, you've constructed a business model, had it ok'd, begun further analysis, design and implementation and then hear the user say "uh, that's not how we do things here".
Or when you've produced a GUI that's non bloated, only to have the user request additional unnecessary stuff. You make the suggested changes, and the user reports back that the GUI is hard to use and bloated.
Or when a non computer geek calls a computer geek who's into software development asking for help on Win 9x stuff, assuming that if you know about object oriented analysis and design, you must be an expert on the quirks of win 9x.
Or when your profession is referred to as "home page creator". Alternatively, when a non geek hears you're a computer science dude, asks if I use MS Front Page to make "those databases."
Or when it's YOUR fault that the server at their job is down due to 40 meg emails being forwarded to everyone on their contact list.
Lost a document? No problem; it's the networks fault. Or more specifically, the "home page makers" managing it.
The suggestion that software development is just a matter of applying your bellybutton to the chair and starting to spaghetti code is always amusing.
Get people to work overtime? No problem; give them a can of coca cola and they should be good for 8-9 hours. IT people never eat, that's well known, and don't mind spending their free time trying to retrieve the document you've just deleted by accident.
Oh yes. It's good to be appreciated
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Von Santa
Staffelkapitän 9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"If you return from a mission with a victory, but without your Rottenflieger, you have lost your battle."
- D. Hrabak, JG 54 "Grünherz"
