Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
OK, there's this total dick I sometimes do work for.
He's a dick. I mean it. I can barely stand the guy. Other people can barely stand the guy.
But his office is right next to mine, so when he needs help with his server, I walk over there and help him out. For some reason. Not because he pays me or anything.
This guy has a magical power to piss off contractors. He's trying to get a web guy to come do... something to his web site, which is on a server in his office.
Whatever technology was used to develop his site, there's a lot of compiled code for which he does not have the source.
Between that and the fact that the guy is a dick, the last three people he has hired have all stopped returning his calls. I'm guessing this takes place about 15 seconds after seeing that they can't make changes to the site without the source code that he doesn't have (because he was a dick to the guy who made his web site, and he won't give it up... he's also going to be amused when his domain registration runs out in six months).
Now he's being sued for something on his web site. He keeps bugging me about it. I don't really care that he's being sued, but I told him I'd ask people I know if they might know someplace to find the magical web developer who can put up with him and properly explain to him that he's going to need his web site rewritten since he can't get the source code for whatever the hell it is he doesn't have. Being a dick, I don't think he's willing to pay for that.
Ordinarily I'd be a lot more specific about all of this, but since I can't stand the guy, I've tried to have as little to do with this as possible.
Anyway, if any of the web people want a job from someone you will want to murder within minutes, or know of a place to find people who are desperate enough to work for someone they will want to murder, please let me know.
While you're at it, another part of the job is convincing the guy that he doesn't need to be hosting his web site on his crappy Comcast cable connection.
He's a dick. I mean it. I can barely stand the guy. Other people can barely stand the guy.
But his office is right next to mine, so when he needs help with his server, I walk over there and help him out. For some reason. Not because he pays me or anything.
This guy has a magical power to piss off contractors. He's trying to get a web guy to come do... something to his web site, which is on a server in his office.
Whatever technology was used to develop his site, there's a lot of compiled code for which he does not have the source.
Between that and the fact that the guy is a dick, the last three people he has hired have all stopped returning his calls. I'm guessing this takes place about 15 seconds after seeing that they can't make changes to the site without the source code that he doesn't have (because he was a dick to the guy who made his web site, and he won't give it up... he's also going to be amused when his domain registration runs out in six months).
Now he's being sued for something on his web site. He keeps bugging me about it. I don't really care that he's being sued, but I told him I'd ask people I know if they might know someplace to find the magical web developer who can put up with him and properly explain to him that he's going to need his web site rewritten since he can't get the source code for whatever the hell it is he doesn't have. Being a dick, I don't think he's willing to pay for that.
Ordinarily I'd be a lot more specific about all of this, but since I can't stand the guy, I've tried to have as little to do with this as possible.
Anyway, if any of the web people want a job from someone you will want to murder within minutes, or know of a place to find people who are desperate enough to work for someone they will want to murder, please let me know.
While you're at it, another part of the job is convincing the guy that he doesn't need to be hosting his web site on his crappy Comcast cable connection.
