One of our customers is a minor telco, which has been taken over by a bigger one. Some of the customer documents, welcome letters and so on, are generated by our system.
First of all, the new owner wanted us to re-brand it all for free. Well, we didn't (maybe you understand). I wrote an offer for the whole package including some fixes, sums another 9000 $.
Of course, they have to discuss it now,they told me. But in the meantime - they seriously asked us to black the former company name by hand on each letter using a marker. No shit buddies!

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The title doesn't promise too much: eclipse indeed has multiple problems. I've never seen this kind of "nested exception" before :-D

Using svn for decades. Think I should really have a look at this git thing...

So, I am poor because I'm ill. After I am a developer, this is a devrant now. Poor me!

Connecting local test server with live db for testing purposes. Needs 10 min to start up because much data is preloaded.
Checked against 0 instead of null in code. Big fat null pointer error greets. Another 10 mins lost.

I already told you that my boss is not a developer. So, when he tells me "that should be easy to code" I always get a little nervous.

For sure you know people who ask you like "hey, you do something with computer, right? I have a problem with my (insert random device here)."
Of course I am looking forward doing so! I was playing with jboss and oracle all the day and like to do more computer stuff! Yes, today, I know it is important because your mom can't play candy crush right now...
No! Stop! After fixing PCs for nearly free in my spare time, I am blocking all these questions now and focus on doing things i like in my spare time. Are you still fixing other people's stuff for free? Stop it. Enjoy life!

It always gives me a smile when my boss (ceo, no technician) calls me and says "let's do some software architecture together!". He has no idea what this means, but he likes the term. Sometimes, this call just means "let's have a beer together"

"forget this foreign key relation thing. It is really annoying if you want to delete entries..."