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Originally posted by chodadog
Hiring the wrong programmers. Goddamn waste of time.
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AMEN!
I just wasted several months and several hundred dollars on a programmer who claimed he was fast and an expert php programmer. Turned out he was slow as hell, was working on other projects while mine wasn't yet completed, and wasn't able or willing to do the job the way I wanted it done.
I ended up with a script that is basically useless to me and that I'm going to have to pay someone else to fix and finish.
I also got burned by choosing the wrong host for the project this script was going to be used for. I selected one of the better known hosts on this board and it was one problem after another from day one. Each time I wanted to cancel and move on they would basically beg me to stay with promises of how everything would be fixed... after three months and the server still wasn't working right, I said enough is enough and left for good. Then they had the balls to imply that it was my fault that the server they set up was a lemon and that their techs couldn't get it working right.
Lessons learned and mistakes that won't be made again...
