Yesterday I heard a pretty funny story…
We used to have these daily 9.30am meetings during which developers would get chased up about bugs they had against their code. Generally these meetings were boring and a waste of time for myself but I would attend occasionally to see of there were any database/release issues.
The guy who chaired these meetings was an Irish contractor and a reasonable bloke, but you really had to feel sorry for someone who had to sit through this every day and appear interested enough to chase up countless bugs.
Well, one day he was chairing this meeting and a certain Project Manager was in attendance. This PM was obviously stressed out, wanting bug issues resolved so he could go and update Microsoft Project. The developer can’t have been in attendance so he turned his attentions to our Irish pal, looking for him to take ownership of the problem. After (I’m guessing) about 2 years of these meetings, our man’s patience was weaning and it had built up to the point where he just couldn’t take it any more. He casually reached into his pocket, pulled out a 20 pence piece, placed it on the table and without missing a beat looked the Project Manager in the eye and said:
“Here’s 20p, go and phone someone who gives a fuck…”
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