insult to injury

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I had been waiting weeks for Bad Code to do three code reviews so I visited him in person yesterday to ask him (as politely as possible) to get off his ass. He promised to take a look at it, but as I was leaving he said something to the effect of “thanks for bothering me about this”, which I want to be charitable and think that he meant to say “thanks for reminding me” due to the fact that he as inept as social skills as he is at software engineering. It's disrespectful though, and there is no excuse for it.

The latest insult though was when His Highness Paul III sent me a defect telling me that it was “mine”^[1]. Not true, as it turns out when I went to visit him later that day I described the cause of the defect he said “oh I just fixed that”. “ah,” I didn't say, “so the defect was in fact ‘yours’.”

Bad Code did in fact finally approve my code changes.

I can't be too angry at then though, because I resolved four defects today. Not bad considering I only showed up at 2:30pm.

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1. he has this tendency to pass the buck