Mar
The Terrible Ex-Employee
So what happens when you have to deal with the wreckage left behind by a disgruntled ex-employee?
As I sat there, staring at the screen full of asp.net code, it was as if the page itself was a riddle wrapped in an enigma, like a rubiks cube made of slightly different hues barely indistinguishable from each other.
He had struck again.
My fists clenched, I held back the fury of the angry coder that wanted to yell horrible things at the screen, as if it sat there taunting me with it’s carwreck pile of tags, divs, and tables so completely interwined it seemed impossible to tell where one began and another ended.
My web program didn’t even seem to know.
Yet somehow it had been working. The page was so rigged it was like looking into a car engine and finding that the thing ran on hamsters and hillbilly twine.
Yeehaw.
After a few hours of trying to untangle the code, I decided to just start from scratch. When my boss found out about this atrocity, he just gave me a look that said “I hate that guy, he’s dead to me.”
Eventually we got the page sorted out, (recoded from scratch). This wasn’t intentional sabotage, but frustrating nonetheless.
I did, however, work in a place where the ex-employee sabotaged a LOT concerning the computer system and essentially told me to do everything the opposite way it should be done.
Huzzah. Happy Monday.
Here’s a link for funsies.
Paula Deen Riding Things
