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Solutions for When Managers Hijack Your Code?
Chiggy_Von_Richtoffe asks: "Two friends of mine work at a warehouse distribution center. First, they are customer service representatives, not paid developers. Secondly, the are developing the software in their spare time to make their jobs easier using MFC and HTML. Their bosses have already talked up the idea behind their backs, and then came back to them with a deadline to release the (in-house) software, on a national level. However, they haven't had time to release their first version, and the bosses don't even know what the software can do nor even what it looks like. There is a feeling that the bosses may pat them on the head and run with the software for their own promotions. What should they do?"
Lemee see.. People are taking your projects behind your back.
... What in the hell do you think?? RUN, and RUN QUICKLY.
Those people havent tested it upon anybody.
Those people probably havent debugged it well.
Those people arent qualified (Customer service reps).
The managers are supporting them.
They should claim that it already released under the GPL. That should scare them off.
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"WRITTEN BY JOE & BOB, Warehouse #5"
Seriously... sit down with the boss and tell him your concerns. If he's a decent person he'll do something to alleviate them. If he's a shifty fuck then you need to realize that getting credit for software is not your largest problem.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
2. Play Xbox until deadline for "RTM" arrives
3. Deny and involvement with manager's pet project.
4. Laugh uproariously as former managers are escorted off the premises by security for their complete and utter failure to meet deadline
Step 5: Profit!
If the bosses are really that clueless, make it a wiki of all the stupid things those bosses have done and said over the years and "go national" with it.
1. MFC and HTML? WTF? What does that even mean? How are MFC and HTML integrated at all?
Dear Employee,
You will know that MFC and HTML form part of our synergy of vertically integrated products, allowing a shorter development timeframe, an empowering, scalable and future-proof across multiple client-based platforms.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in our results driven proactive marketing plan.
We're really pushing the envelope here, and it seems you are out of the loop. We really need you to ramp up your knowledge base, to facilitate the kind of leverage we need to monetize our best of breed product.
If you review our vision statement, you will see that we are aiming to be the client-based, goal-setting, bleeding edge, result-driven leader in the information superhighway of the future.
Please keep this in mind.
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