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I've been getting very disillusioned and pissed off with helping people lately.
Someone this week had a problem with one of my downloads, it was sort of their problem because they had set the ID field as text instead of AutoNumber. On the upside, I did discover a bug in my code which I fixed, so the code is much improved. It was a good couple of hours work and I haven't had a thank you, kiss my ass, or nothing back from the person.
If that was the only one I wouldn't have mentioned it because I know people are busy and forget things, I'm just as daft at that myself.
I think it was about 2 years ago there was another one that really annoyed me, a guy from Denmark working for LEGO. I helped him out with a problem, I don't even remember what it was now, but again it was a few hours work, and he offered to pay me and I said no, I don't do this sort of thing for payment. He said well anyway, there's a big box of LEGO in it for you! Well I was impressed, I thought that was nice! But it never turned up! I didn't ask for it. He offered it when he didn't need to, and then reneged on it. That's bloody disgusting if you ask me...
Anyway it just seems to me that the courtesy has gone out of things since people of started communicating through the internet. The way people talk to you sometimes in the forums, people taking umbrage at the slightest misstep you make in your communication, and calling you out on it. I just wondered if it's just me or anybody else has noticed the same?
Someone this week had a problem with one of my downloads, it was sort of their problem because they had set the ID field as text instead of AutoNumber. On the upside, I did discover a bug in my code which I fixed, so the code is much improved. It was a good couple of hours work and I haven't had a thank you, kiss my ass, or nothing back from the person.
If that was the only one I wouldn't have mentioned it because I know people are busy and forget things, I'm just as daft at that myself.
I think it was about 2 years ago there was another one that really annoyed me, a guy from Denmark working for LEGO. I helped him out with a problem, I don't even remember what it was now, but again it was a few hours work, and he offered to pay me and I said no, I don't do this sort of thing for payment. He said well anyway, there's a big box of LEGO in it for you! Well I was impressed, I thought that was nice! But it never turned up! I didn't ask for it. He offered it when he didn't need to, and then reneged on it. That's bloody disgusting if you ask me...
Anyway it just seems to me that the courtesy has gone out of things since people of started communicating through the internet. The way people talk to you sometimes in the forums, people taking umbrage at the slightest misstep you make in your communication, and calling you out on it. I just wondered if it's just me or anybody else has noticed the same?