Okay. Well. Hmmm.

Looks like our problem client will be walking out the door.

Not because of last week's chaos. No, we have a whole new problem.

I've been trying for two days to code a job in one of our proprietary software programs and it won't work. It crashes on the same question, even though I've rebuilt the question from scratch in three different ways, deleted the page twice and re-entered it, and even rebuilt the entire job from scratch. It crashes on this one question - even though the question has nothing special about it, has been built and rebuilt until I'm sure there are no weird and hidden codes buried in the text, and it's placed at a different spot in the job.

I'm sitting here (alone in the office, I hardly need add), looking at a Tuesday, drop-dead deadline for getting this coded and approved by the client (I have to fly out of here Wednesday) and thinking...this ain't going to happen.

Neither the person who originally built the program nor the person who later did updates are speaking to Bernie any more and neither of them will work with him any more.

Bernie claims he has a line on a "new guy" who will be able to help us out with problems, but we haven't even met him yet, much less do we know if he'll be able to look at the disaster area of code that is this product and figure out a "fix" in two business days.

I'm wondering if I shouldn't just pack up and leave now, while no one is looking?