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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01664241
Message ID:
01664267
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52
>>>>Removed.
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>>>I don't see it anymore. :(
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>>The question was so simple that as soon as I typed it, the answer came to me immediately.
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>>A side note. I have been working straight 10-hour days for the past week or so, for my first European customer. They said (some weeks ago) that they would like to have the program (my program) asap, to get it up and running by the end of this calendar year. So, I pushed. Last night I worked till about 11 pm (US time), finishing the installation, so that they (the customer) could start testing it today. And I did finish and install. Sent them an email at 11 pm my time saying that all is ready for their testing. I was hoping they would test today (Friday), simply loading the app to get to the main window.. This test would take about 30 or 60 seconds.
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>>This morning I received email from their IT manager stating, "thanks, we will test it on Monday." I was/am very upset (to put it mildly). But the good thing is that I learned a lesson (not the first time :) to not give a damn about what they say and what they wish. Next time they will wait.
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>>Enjoy your day.
>
>(shrug) We've seen a similar sort of situation. The customer was really pushing for wanting to go live with the system asap. They wanted everything ready for on-site testing by next week. Barely got the thing delivered on time. We didn't hear from them for a couple weeks, so we called. It turned out they didn't have the server ready for the installation. In fact, they had not yet ordered the server to host the software since they were still waiting on the approval for purchase the server from accounting. Apparently they didn't put in the request until after we'd delivered the software. A couple months later we got a call from the customer -- they wanted a replacement for the installation disc (they had apparently misplaced the original we'd sent).

Who came up with the "customer is always right"? :)
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
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