[quote user="KrakenLover"]paying me to customize the system for something so idiotic[/quote]  Here! Here! Here! (Every time I say that I have seven children, and my children have five months, some lady in the audience jumps up and yells "Number Six! Number Six!".)  

 Lot of Thai ladies eat the Swiss. Make good money at it, too.  

[quote user="configurator"]All tasks are top priority.[/quote] That is correct; all tasks shown are top priority. As opposed to lower priority tasks, such as your wife, your children, your home, your sick dog, the overdue car payment, etc.    

Every once in a while I have to send an SMS to my boss saying that his e-mail quota has been exceeded, so he can clean out his garbage and get nice fresh new garbage in there. Dumb question: Why can't e-mail systems have a phone number for you where it can send an SMS itself when you're over quota?

[quote user="bridget99"]A profession has a code of ethics and barriers to entry. Also, programmers don't get sued, and aren't licensed by the state. Generally, both of these things ARE true of real professionals (physicians, accountants, lawyers, and such). I see people misuse "professional" in amusing ways (e.g. ...

[quote user="portablejim"]The question I have is: Can I turn right?[/quote]  In Thailand, it would depend on where the nearest policeman is, and what time of day it is (e.g. "I don't have to wear a motorcycle helmet, it's evening, the policemen are having dinner now.") In England, the answer would be ...

 What country do you work in where they have those weird-shaped electrical outlets? I've never seen one like that; I've never even seen a "universal connector" that could plug into it. Ground in the middle?  

Thais turn the "S" into a "T" at the end of a syllable, so "bonus" comes out as "bonut". One year the company was in trouble, so I went around telling everyone "This year we cannot give you a bonut, but we can give you a donut. Do you want a donut? Sorry, no bonut."

[quote user="Monomelodies"]Certainly not :) This is my current favourite client.[/quote]  Tell her I'll subcontract the 4 blank boxes on the left really cheap. I do blank boxes very well.   

 Being a web site developer, I look at the page source frequently. A few versions ago they removed the "View Page Source" from tehe menu it was on. Took me a while to find it down in a context pup-up menu. And on some pages it's hard to find a context that shows it (e.g. if the entire page is a video). Why? Who knows? Who else ...