I'm losing it
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- k0na_an0k
I know I've fucked around quite a lot here lately. But I am as serious as a heart attack when I say that I am at the end of my rope.
I have a client (a Marketing adgency) who is working for a small city in Illinois. He talked them into allowing the people of this city to pay water bills (a variable $ amount) and buy a vehicle sticker (a static $ amount) oninle using Authorize.net. Fine. I said I could do it. Then the details of the client's host and Authorize.net have come out.
After spending the better part of two weeks trying to figure out "supplied" code, which is shit, at least 30 phone calls to the "support" staff at Authorize.net it has come to my understanding that with the host the client is running, and the fact that they want the user to enter in their own amount they would like to pay, (which is an impossible feature of Authorize.net seeing as how the amount has to be hard coded) this will not work.
My client will never believe me when I try to tell him. Shit. Maybe I just can't do it. Fuck I just don't know. I'm going out of my mind trying to figure this out.
To top it off I am 2 weeks 3 days out from a bodybuilding show I've been dieting for the last 12 weeks for. I've been getting up every morning at 5:30, this morning being the pinnacle of my insanity level.
I get up to find that I am blocked in in my own garage by some stupid fuck. So I have to wake the neighbors to see which dumb fucker parked their car in my driveway. I finally get to the gym for my morning cardio to find I'm stopped after swiping in cause my membership has expired. So this girl that I've seen every day for the past 2 years asks me "do you even work out here?" WHAT YOU STUPID BITCH!?! I SEE YOU EVERY FUCKING DAY AND YOUR GYM IS SPONSERING ME IN THIS SHOW! So she then endulges me in some bullshit where she says I'm not even a member and it's been expired for.... 2 years. IMPOSSIBLE YOU CUNT! I just renewed my membership less that 6 months ago for the next 17 months. Fucking impossible. So we try and straighten it out... I can feel my blood boil. I finally get to the treadmill and I go to place my water bottle in the holder, I miss and the bottle falls on the treadmill and explodes at my feet popping off the top.
I'm near going apeshit with anger.
I do my cardio and try my best to relax. I leave the gym only to get stopped on the way home by a cop for having a headlight out. At least he gives me a warning.
On the way to work, it's foggy, I have my headlights on. You've got to be muther fucking kidding me I get stopped again by a different cop. I explain that I was already stopped and again I get a warning.
So now I get to work and get off the phone with this 'service' my client has signed up for and they basically tell me it will not work with the fucking shit basic server application the client is trying to use.
So now I am forced to tell my client I can't do it. I have no idea what they are going to do seeing as how it's in the contract that I would do it for a certain amount. At least they have not paid that amount to me yet.
But now my client is fucked because the fucking moron promised HIS client we could do it then signed up for something that they didn't need, couldn't use even if it would work on the server because it doesn't allow the user to set their own price for fucking buying something, and blah blah I am going to fucking go out of my mind.
I don't know what to do.
I'm going to go for a walk or something.
- Mal0
A walk may be a good start. Restoring a rational state of mind always helps.
- normal0
Tower, high powered rifle, scope.
Sorted.
- kodap0
shit.. I haven't read your whole statement.. but i wish you the best luck,
- gruntt0
jeeeezus. sorry man. what can we do to help?
we're here for ya...
...you're too scary to dis.
- Point50
Bottom line: you're client fucked up, so he's fucked. If he provided you with inaccurate info about how the app would be used then that's his fault. Yeah, it sucks dealing with it, but it's not entirely your fault.
And out of curiosity, what show are you getting ready for?
- speed_d0
stop being a cry baby...
just kidding, that suck dude...time for a drink...
- mr_snuggles0
Go stab a hobo, that always makes you feel better doesn't it?
- gruntt0
by the way, you failed to mention that the fog was your fault as well.
- BonSeff0
play this song loud and go roll-up a homeless
http://www.chorizoapproved.com/n…
- slinky0
Go fishing.
Eat a nice fattening, greasy PIZZA...
Go ask that girl at the gym out on a date and then walk out after dinner and stiff her with a huge bill.
ohhhhhhhhh Most important... don't forget to breathe.
- tny0
steady as she goes...
- moth0
That's the funniest post I read all day! I had no idea other people got as pissed as me.
- exador10
hey kona..
the one thing to remember when all this is getting you down is that..in the end...when all's said and done, well..
it's a bunch of shit that you won't even really remember in the near future..
if the client didn't give you the proper info, and he promised someone else that all was ok, well...too bad for him..
the thing to do would be to get him, and the people tech guys you've been talking too together and powow..
there is ALWAYS a solution..
maybe you just have to figure out a way to low tech it...
or cut back on one special 'feature' that just, frankly, can't be done...
or you tell the client that the problem is at the other end, and you need to wait till they upgrade THEIR offerings...
or you pull the old, 'phased' approach...where you say..ok...at this juncture 'phase 1) we can do this...
at phase 2) we can do this..
at phase 15..we can implement the impossible shit..if you sit down with your client (not over the phone..too easy to go apeshit) sit down with him, tell him the technical problem, and brainstorm a solution that not only saves his ass, but your own..
remember..
if you help him save face, he'll be a client to keep...
if you cast him aside now, well...thats just lost revenue..anyhow.. i hope all goes well kona..
kick some ass at the body building thing you're doing, and remember..
don't sweat the small stuff ...
in a week, all you'll remember is that it was all bullshit anyhow..
keep smilingex
- Algo0
it comes in waves. Always does, maybe next week something amazing will happen to make up for this shit week. Channel it towards something worth while . Anger is the best vehicle
- k0na_an0k0
I'm getting ready to tell the client it can't be done. Can't get much worse so I shouldn't really give a fuck.
No. The fog was actually my fault.... somehow. I know it was.
Point5:
And out of curiosity, what show are you getting ready for?
Point5
(oct 20 04, 07:48)
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The Natural Mid-States Muscle Classic XVII in Rockford IL. Thinking of doing the Muscle Expo in the 27th if I place well. Both are National qualifiers.Now. Time to talk to the client.
- Anarchitect0
put this on high rotation.
http://media.epitaph.com/_lib/st…works for me.
- gruntt0
goodluk.
- JazX0
hey good luck in the body building show.
- pascii0
yes. could be worse.
- loudubs0
you can only do what you can do, Kona, just, remember, the material world is based on suffering, you will always suffer for your attachments, but you are lucky to suffer