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Quote: using Crystal Reports
Even I'm not that cruel! Hmmm... that's an idea though.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Don't you have any dark closet where you can place him to review the biggest legacy project you can find in the gvnt division (preferrably in VB6)?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Someone needs to point out that "the emperor has no clothes". If you all let it go then your frustrations will just grow to the point where you throw yourself off a cliff (fortunately I did not live near any cliffs).
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Ah what a wealth of excellent ideas, you would think this scenario was common. The body to the piggery or dung heap but keep the head and put it on a spike outside the common meeting room (sorry RossMW this is close to your suggestion).
I do like the Crystal Reports suggestion and if you make him code it in VB it would just add that little twist of angst to the project.
However I would use a cluebat and duct tape. Belt him with the cluebat as he enters the meeting then tape his mouth shut. Watch as he turns beet red with frustration.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Fortunately, I live in a desert, so that's half the solution right there.
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Are you volunteering to dispose of the "package"?
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More like location scouting for a finder's fee.
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Forogar wrote: Where is the best place to bury a body
No, no, no! You've got it all wrong.
Take the head and mount it on a pike outside the castle walls as a warning to others.
The rest of the body dump in a culvert somewhere nearby, dressed only in a pink tutu.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Forogar wrote: Where is the best place to bury a body? Just asking for a friend. 
The garden of any rival, ofc.
Arguments; compare them, and both of you might learn.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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If he's the lead, or there is no lead, then you're doomed.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I've got 20 acres in Arizona, and a backhoe. Let's talk...
Will Rogers never met me.
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So, you think he is overreacting.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Its a bit amazing and scary at the same time, how much traction a murderous idea is getting by people of profession which are generally known as introverts and socially awkward. Then again that might be the reason why.
I may just be scared because I'm the know-it-all in my team 
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Pitchforks at the ready everyone, we got another one over here 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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And don't forget the scythes 
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Just stick the body in the cabinet with all the VB4, PSP3, VS Boston, adobe acrobat, foxpro, etc. discs.
No-one will happen across it even by accident, there.
The cupboard with all the old ps2 cables, memory sticks, floppy drives, etc. is riskier, because some people use old CD drives as bases, to lift their monitors a bit higher.
[ edit: the second sentence was a bit too "even" ]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 11-Mar-20 6:42am.
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You should be free to state that "persistence of an opinion is not the same as knowledge or professionalism". However, the problem with these folks is that summary execution does not help, and they will keep talking even when the head is chronically severed from the body.
We call them "zweefteef" but I can't seem to find a suitable translation.
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"Airhead" maybe?
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An unrealistic worldview sounds right.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: Where is the best place to bury a body? J
Bingo?[^]
It's easy when people do it as a routine.
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On the pavement in front of your office, only valid if you throw him from high enough though...
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[splet]
(too harsh?  )
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At the least, only verbally tell your friend. You don't want to be implicated with a paper trail. Also before telling them, check them for any recording devices. Maybe also do the meeting in the server room so the deafening noise masks anything you say.
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Well - the way you describe the new team member - and the way you describe yourself - I'd either 'off the both of you' or put you both in the same cell.
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Quote: put you both in the same cell
Cage fight! Yeah! I can take him easy!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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He needs a STFU from the group, or cement shoes, always in style.
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