My boss just won't read things! Today's example:

Me: There's an issue when there isn't an image on an item. (Picture attached)
Boss: If the image exists it's probably a permission issue.

This is just the latest in a very long list of examples. I wrote off most of the others since they were often in a longer paragraph or complicated issues, but this was literally one sentence and he skipped half of it.

Sounds like an issue of a technical boss. Accepting issues because some understanding the technical issue behind it and accepting it. That's cool for devs often but could be less good for the product.

Steve Jobs forced his devs to make something that was impossible according to devs but Steve Jobs said - it's possible, I've seen it at xerox and you fucking make it. In the end, the devs made it. And it was smth new because the xerox team did smth you could see as 'cheating' to get that results. The subject here was smth like "windows overlay". You could see it as the z-index of css. Source: his book.

Moral of story - often it's good to have a boss not accepting technical limitations for sake of quality.

Side note: i don't mean that jobs wasn't technical, he converted arcade machines to color for ffs, that's more advanced than most stuff all of us are doing now.

@retoor it was impossible according to the time frame the devs had, and they had to work overtime alot.

@feuerherz I don't remember there was a time frame involved but hey, did it work or did it work? And yes, overworking can be seen as a negative thing but I was focussed on what was good for the product. What OP posted was about accepting less quality product

Maybe he's dyslexic and read 'when' as 'where' and thought the complaint was about a missing image. Well, there's no need to be dyslexic to make that mistake.

Maybe part of the problem is that the text didn't explain the issue, just when it happens?