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Discussion on: The "Elitist Developer" Debacle

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Lisa Armstrong

Personal Pet Peve:

Client (from hell) takes your work to another programmer to review, then inform you it's garbage (even though it works) and you lose the account (and money).

I've never met the other developer, but I'm pretty sure it's the type with lots of 'opions', but not much professionalism.

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Henry 👨‍💻

Oof, I'm sorry that happened 😔. Try not to let it discourage you though, as annoying as it is they'll always be more clients and more opportunities.

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Lisa Armstrong

Thanks Henry. Yes, it stung, and prompted some self reflection, which is healthy.

It's why I make it a point to be patient with other people's code. They wrote it that way for a reason.