9?) The "International Consultant of Mystery". Comes from 'nowhere' to design specs and give presentation on design and requirements for project and leaves for [insert appropriately out of touch country on other side or world here] and is gone for weeks. All the while, the project is waiting for this 'mystery consultant' to return to get the project started. (OK, this is an AS400 'consultant' I've run into recently but it fits, eh?)

- A Hilton


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>>6) The assassin. Puts application death routines in his or her code that kills the application after "n" months and then forgets to remove them.
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>Thank the gods I have never run into this one! I would hate to have to go to court about it.
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>7) Smiley Joe. Comes in, has numerous meetings, gives a reasonable bid. Does a good design specification, but never gets around to doing the work.