Permission to rant please?

[billyskank]

I'm a programmer. Where I work, we don't have source control, we all work in one communal development directory (I know, I know). When I went to find my work on Friday, it wasn't there, so I sent an email round the department if anybody knew what had happened. In the meantime I set to trying to reconstruct my work from the source stored in the database, but one guy (let's call him C) suggested I look in the "rubbish" directory, and lo there was my work. C had moved my work to the "rubbish" directory because the files were not following the naming convention, which was quite true because I was working on the same file in two separate project - in source control parlance I needed to branch, except that I couldn't branch because we don't use source control, which is why I had renamed my files. Anyway, I moved them back and a little disgruntled said nothing more about it.

Today I looked to find that C had moved them again to the "rubbish" directory, even though this time he knew full well whose they were and that they were not rubbish. I could not contain myself and sent him an angry email which basically said stop doing this. He replied with some sanctimonious horseshit about my nonstandard named files being irrelevant to any other developer, and I replied that I didn't care, just stop messing with my work. He forwarded my last mail to my manager, ccing me, saying that I was unable to grasp this simple concept. I can grasp it you fucking piece of brummie shit, I just don't care, and anyway no manager ever told me that files in the development directory have to follow a naming convention, I think he made this rule up himself. C is not my superior, just another programmer.

Anyway, I didn't swear or insult him in either of my emails that he forwarded to my boss, although he was openly snarky about me. We shall find out what my boss thinks later, he is not the sort to leave stuff unfollowed up.

But anyway. Augh! :nuke:

[DS1]

1. What a dick

probably a sub-standard programmer taking the politics route instead of the productive route. There's one in every team, it seems.

[billyskank]

3. He's a mediocrity who thinks he's all that.

He keeps talking about this mythical £40K job that he thinks he deserves (I get £32K) but he doesn't know as much as he thinks he does. He hates his job, but he left once and came back again. I reckon his other employer clocked him for what he is and he couldn't hack it. Anyway, management are about at the end of their tether with him. This might actually be the thing that sends them over the edge.

[Callalily]

2. Sorry to hear about your

controlling colleague. Hopefully your supervisor will put a stop to his disruptiveness.

And sorry, but I had to grin about your brummie shit comment. We don't hear that much around here. ;)

:hug: :loveya: :hi:

[billyskank]

4. I guess there aren't many brummies in the USA

You have Birmingham, Alabama, but I don't think brummies live there. ;)

:loveya: 2 :hug: :hi:

[Droopy]

5. See, out here in the wild, wild west we don't stand for that kind of bullshit

If a man's got a problem with another man we don't get all wimpified and tattle tale on each other. We meet out in the street and handle it like real men. Last man standing gets his way.

Actually, what you described probably goes on every day in cubicles across America. Now I'm a trucker. When we have a problem with another driver we just get on the cb radio and cuss out the asshole. I bet a lot of people in cube-land wish they had the freedom to do that. :) Don't take no shit off that guy. Make sure your side of the story is heard.

[billyskank]

7. No worries about that

He cced the whole email exchange to my boss. I am not embarrassed by anything that is in there. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. I hate office politics and intrigue. What an asshole.

non-standard my ass :grr:

:hug: :hi:

[billyskank]

8. The guy needs to learn to mind his own business

I don't tell him how to do his job, and I certainly would never clear away some files on a network drive when I didn't know whose they were or what they were for. How arrogant is that?

:hi: :hug: