[AccessD] VBA Unbound data entry / update form

One of my mantra's is "I get paid by the hour".  If I explain the pitfalls
of something they want to do and they still want me to do it, guess what "I
get paid by the hour".  In two months when they realize it wasn't such a
good idea, guess what "I get paid by the hour" to change it again.  I never
bill by the job.  

The bottom line is I do this for a living.  I have no desire to be a
crusader/martyr for perfect database design.  I'm a woman with a California
mortgage and two kids in college.  I am not a drone following direction
indiscriminately.  I give them my best advice based on hard won experience.
Rarely, if not never, has a client dictated data structure to me.  But they
sure as heck want to dictate program flow.  When they move against my advice
we usually wind up down the road with them deciding, once again, to tell me
only what they want as the end result, not how it should work.  In the
meantime I may need to twist myself into a pretzel to get the darn thing to
work the way they 'envision' - but all the while the meter's running.

Jennifer 

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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:05 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBA Unbound data entry / update form

You wouldn't get past the front door Drew with all this "I won't do what the
customer asks" crap.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Drew Wutka wrote:
> LOL, sure, I'll take their number, and if I deliver a system where 
> they don't have lockups, runs much faster, and has far better data 
> integrity and transaction history, would you be pissed if I got their 
> business! ;)
> 
> I guess that's just a difference between the two of us, I will not 
> make a bad system for a client, if they want some rope to hang 
> themselves with, they can find someone else to give it to them.  A bad 
> design means that my rep is on the line when the problems pop up, and 
> my phone/email being flooded for problems I knew would come out of a bad
design.
> 
> Besides, I really have doubts that they forced the design of the table 
> structure on you.  The interface could easily be made to look like 
> what they wanted, but have the table structure much sturdier in the 
> background.
> 
> Drew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 12:37 AM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] VBA Unbound data entry / update form
> 
> LOL.  Tell that to the client.  They tell us what to do, not the 
> opposite.  I recommend, they say "we want it this way", I say "ok".
> 
> There is a lot of "bad design" out there, and in the end we (or I) do 
> what the client wants.  BTW they hire me to work for them.  Each of 
> the principals make several times my annual wage, and their business 
> is booming.
> 
> Do you need their phone number to tell them all about their 
> "bad design"?    8-)
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
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