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[opinions welcome]
I'm just furious right now!!!

So I'm on this project where we have to make a whole *very old* website look like it's brand new.

Thing is, the whole point of the project is to make exactly the same pages as on the existing website smh. No UX or UI suggestions.
Just put the navbar in a component that looks like a tab bar, who cares anyway!?

Btw, I'm in charge of the UI.

My colleagues and I (mostly my colleagues) made a react components library and we use it for this project.
Fucking inputs get thrown into tables and all that, but hey, that's what the client asked for.

So here I am with my shiny new page, and I just hand it over to the front-end dev who just arrived.
She's supposed to feed in the data.
I don't give a fuck you use flow or redux or whatever fancy tooling.
Just call your back-end, get the data, format it and feed my damn table with it. That's it.

So today, after 5 weeks she's in, she calls a meeting where she's screening a presentation to the team complaining about how long it took her to understand what I did and change it completely.
Pieces of code on screen, saying it's crap and it shouldn't be like that.

I'm not responsible for inputs in fucking table, the client is!
Of course I have nested components with data passed through all the way: it's a series of fucking radio buttons within a table within a form!

During 5 weeks, yoy didn't even come to me once saying it's not what you expected or you're having trouble with my work!
And there we blaming my job like I'm the bad guy?!

Tonight, everyone's going home thinking I'm no good at what I do and completely lost, all because of her.

If you got this far, I'd like to hear from you on how I should act with her and how to tell her what she did is awfully wrong?

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  • 2
    So you let this meeting pass, you just sat there and stuck your thumb into your butthole?

    Well, you had the opportunity to change things. You didn't, and that's why YOU are seen as the retarded one now.
  • 0
    @Fast-Nop did I say I just sat there and waited?
    Me and my 2 colleagues stood our ground and explained to her our choices. Thing is she never listened and kept saying the same 3-4 things over and over.

    We only wanted her to come talk to us before calling the meeting.
    I'm blaming the communication method she chose here.

    Thanks for your intelligent input full of compassion though.
    You can go back to twitter insulting others cause they're not good enough for you and carry on with your life.
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    @pierrot111 you asked how to tell her, and the only point to do that was right in front of the others and not let her get away. If you had done this, not everyone would have gone home thinking that you're no good. Conclusion is, you fucked up.

    And if I see your whining now, I don't even wonder why you fucked up.
  • 0
    I'm glad you were present at that meeting so you actually know what happened better than me.
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