And so you code....

Office Office

Scene 1:

Colleague: Hey, Swapnil you got a minute?

Me: No!! (And I swear it wasn't a joke)

Colleague: Ha Ha Ha...Busy huh?

Me: Pretty much ! I hate code reviews. Specially when you get comments on your typos in comment blocks.

Colleague: Been there, done that mate.

Me: I bet.

Colleague: Hey, listen... Can you do me a favor?

Me: (I thought I'd already said no). Errrrr.....

Colleague: Cool, so here's a thing...

Me: (Seriously? I didn't even say yes !!) Hmm?

Colleague: You need to write a method to get the value of (something)

Me: It's easy, there's already a method for that.

Colleague: Oh yeah, but you know what... you can't use that

Me: Why?

Colleague: Coz it's not validated

Me: Are you serious? Then isn't it better to get that method validated

Colleague: Nah, we don't have time for that.

Me: This is ridiculous !! Alright, I'll write it.

Colleague: Thanks, whenever you have time.

Me: Sure, let me see if I can finish it by Friday

Colleague: Sure, but we need it by today EOD.

Me: I am so in love with my life.

Colleague: So you should be.

Me: Oh wait !! If I can't use what we already have, how am I supposed to do it?

Colleague: I don't know, you figure it out. That's what we get paid for, right ;)

Me: Oh sure! I think it'll be too complex though. (Why get paid half when you can get double)

Colleague: Whatever it takes :)

Scene2:

Steven: You need to change the indentation in the code

Me: Okay!

Steven: You know what will be easier?

Me: Yeah?

Steven: You can set the default tab size in the IDE according to the "coding standards" and it'll save you an extra effort

Me: But I already did that!

Steven: Oh let's delete 1 space at the beginning of new line then.

Me: But what about the coding standards?

Steven: I wrote them !!