>I got this email today from a senior person at a large NYC financial institution:
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>"It looks great!!! Thank you and have a great weekend."
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>Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?
>Well it should be but it's really not.
>I started this project early last November.
>I wrote about 50 lines of VFP code (one of my last VFP apps still standing) to make this app happen.
>I finished most of those 50 lines of code and sent sample outputs for acceptance before Thanksgiving last year.
>The average time between query and response was about 8 weeks.
>The average number of harangues by me was about 4.
>By the time I got an answer, I had forgotten the question.
>By the way, the person who requested this app and congratulated me today was the one who didn't answer.
>Am I alone here, or is this a new norm?
>People saying that they'll do something and just not doing it until someone harangues them?

Yes.
I blame social media and television.