this is harsh

actually, this is SO harsh. and UNFAIR. the manager of a client wrote this in one of the email threads about the issues that they have on the system we developed for them:

"What we are requesting are necessary refinements to address the basic flaws of the system namely: (a) the hardcoding that FBM made; (b) inflexible & cumbersome-to-maintain reference table design/structure that FBM made; (c) necessary changes to the transaction capturing & processing & report generation modules as a result of letters (a) & (b)."

allow me to explain...first off, (a) was a result of the users' insistence that the report format they want be displayed. if they had agreed to change the report format (one that do not depend on the brand they specified), we wouldn't have to place hard-coded brand names in the stored procedures. secondly, (b) was approved by them last august. if they even thought for a minute that the database design we made was inflexible and cumbersome to maintain, why didn't they say that during the meeting that we had? why did they approve a design that they weren't satisfied with?

yes, i felt that my intelligence and capability was questioned. i feel inadequate. but i have to live with that. or do i? oh well, guess i just have to wait for the decision of the higher people. i just hope that everything will work out ok.