say what you mean

[cellio]

This morning I asked one of our developers for a feature we had discussed a while back that never got implemented. He agreed that it would be a good thing, sighed about the size of his queue, and said "If I get one more request I'll implement it". I turned to our administrative assistant and asked her to ask the developer for this feature, which she proceeded to do. (Just to be clear on this, this is something she has no earthly use for. I fed her the words.)

Now the developer is complaining that that's not fair and it's not what he meant. I think it was a valuable lesson about specification, and he should suck it up, give me my feature, and be more specific in the future.

I suspect that's not what will happen, though. Oh well; I'll just have to be more creative.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*high-five* :D

A.

[tangerinpenguin.livejournal.com]

Seems obvious to me; that's what I'd have done, and I'd certainly expect nothing less if I was careless enough to hand someone that sort of opening.

All things considered, it sounds like a pretty cheap lesson :-)