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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rooter" data-source="post: 14315" data-attributes="member: 394">Web Developer here with my last war story.  I do mostly financial sites because of the area I live in.  I prefer PHP, then .NET, then Java.  Of course I am currently working in Java.  Last week I got reamed out because my project was not completed on Monday.  I received the requirements the following Friday.  The person causing a fuss was the person that was supposed to give me the requirements.  I pointed that out to him and he told me that they had not decided what they want yet.  I asked if I should buy a mind reading device or a time machine.  We were scheduled for two weeks of coding followed by two weeks of testing.  Due to the delay, they had to cut back a week somewhere, so they decided there should be only one week of coding and two weeks of testing.  No one would approve any overtime, so in order to make things go faster, a business person would ask me my current progress every few hours and make me fill out an Excel spreadsheet with the status of every requested feature.  Status updates would take 40-60% of my day.  Not sure if that is a war story or just complaining.  It's pretty much par for the course.  Thanks for the thread, the venting felt good.Update:  gave my notice!  Booyah!</blockquote>

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