Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 08:11:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The joys of working in a bookstore
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
> Since turning pro on programming I've had bosses ask
> me, with a straight
> face, if we have any undetected bugs in the
> software.

Sounds like you could use some testers!  Any openings?

>They also ask me how
> long I think it will take to implement software for
> a protocol I've never
> used, on an OS I'm not familiar with, for a software
> design that isn't
> fully specified yet, but which keeps changing, and
> they want the estimate accurate to within a month.

Do you really wait for the design to be fully
specified?  The last place I worked, the programmers
usually were programming while we were discussing the
design.  If they coincided when I got to test it, that
made my job a little easier.   But that didn't happen
too often.  The software was also rarely on time.

Nicki

"The man who enters a library is in the best society this world affords; the good and the great welcome him, surround him, and humbly ask to be allowed to become his servants."  -Andrew Carnegie
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