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A number of months ago the business paid an external company to do something because they listened to the salesman and not us who knew what we were talking about.
We had to modify some of our processes to manipulate data and move some files around for this new thing to then do its stuff.
I remember sitting in the original meeting when the salesman said what they could do and thinking to myself I don't understand how that will work.
After they bought it and we had more meetings I kept saying it wouldn't work. It just makes no sense to me. It's not quite 7 red lines, but still made no sense.
I was told to do my thing and this other company would do the rest.
I kept insisting it wouldn't work, until it got to the point where I just started to say each and every time "I don't care anymore. I've tried to warn you, when it doesn't work I'm going to wear a crown".
Tomorrow I get to wear a crown to work for the day.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Congrats!!Order an Expensive Crown and Charge the company!!!! 
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Ah yes, just a typical day at the office: never mind what the technical guy says, he's the eternal pessimist.
Enjoy your crown. Maybe they have learned something but the odds are minimal.
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chriselst wrote: I am the King
Wasn't there a movie where someone said this just before the ship they were on sank? 
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Just make sure it's a crown and not a tiara.
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The king is dead, long live the king.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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I've been threatening to get a box of burger king crowns for this kind of thing for about a year.
I could put them mockingly on people's desks when they say something stupid with conviction, put them on my head for my "I was right! victory laps" It'd be fun. It'd get me fired.... but it MIGHT be worth it.
And congratulations.
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Go on...you know what to do...go in tomorrow in a gold lame suit, shades and with a bucket of burgers.
You might have to put on some weight to pull it off convincingly though... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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All hail king chriselst
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Maybe if you had just done your job, instead of complaining that it will not work, it may have worked.
"Whether you think you can, or think you can't, you're right"
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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So if I hadn't said I didn't understand what this other company were going to do the thing they did that I had nothing whatsoever to do with and have no ability to effect in anyway would have worked?
I must be f***ing magic.
I did spend a couple of hours today checking that our side of things is working exactly as they say it should. However as what they do with the files once they are in the directory they want them in is completely beyond the access and knowledge of everyone in our company there's not much more I could do beyond documenting exactly what is and isn't happening and with a number of examples and pass it on to the PM to contact them.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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They seem to know only how to  and how to 
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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No polit-eeeks please 
** Nice wording though
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Canny Brisk wrote: They seem to know only how to ...
Crimea river?
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"Any application that can be written in JavaScript
will eventually be written in JavaScript"
[Jeff Atwood]
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Looks like this is gonna be an interesting race for March's best "Everything else" Article. Hope we don't get another hunger games episode in here, even though I now wonder what the prices are.
And yes, I survived Argonias attack. You did a little typo, a coworker had just blown up his computer. My IP ends on 1, not on 2 
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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What the hell are you talking about ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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What what I'm talking about?
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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What what what are you talking about ?
This is going nowehere...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I want to know what you want to know from me.
I see that this leads straight to a dead end.
I will never again mention that Dalek Dave was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel.
How to ask a question
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Marco Bertschi wrote: a coworker had just blown up his computer
Damn I was so close.... nevermind i will catch you next time.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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The two of you should just get a room and get that sorted.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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