Yeah, I hear that. We had a VP at 3M tell us not to do unit testing.

In my Software Gardening presentation, I tell people that version control is the most important tool outside their editor/IDE they can have. BTW, I don't call it source control because things other than source code should go into it.

>I knew there were going to be some serious issues with the guy I was working with in my recent job (which I quit already) my first or second day there. I didn't notice any source control program on my computer and asked about it. He seemed only vaguely aware of the concept. I explained what it was and the basic benefits, saying we should at least install SourceSafe. He kiboshed it. "I have too much work to do to have time for source control." He really said that! And sure enough, we did source "control" manually. Sometimes. I was pretty rigorous about it but I know a lot of the time he just went ahead and changed the program.
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>He's one of those guys who actually seems to enjoy doing things the hard way. Beat me, whip me, hurt me....
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>I could go on for pages complaining about him but what would be the point? Moving on.