can I get the sack?

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Hey Niners, I really need some advice on past experiences if possible.

 

A project came up a work which was a massive change of product codes. Everyone in the system. Now a developer friend and I worked at this for 6 months solid. When the demo came the higher management were shocked. "the customers arent going to see the codes right?" errr, in 10 meeting there were no notes of customers NOT seeing these codes, after all, these are NEW product codes. So we work out a that they want to change codes but show model numbers. Why egh. Anyway, on with the story, after the review and the knock back on the first attempt, my developer third party threw the towel in, "it will never work the way they want" now I have the original author of the system who also wont touch it with a barge pole. Now my dilema, after 12 months on this thing, twice going in and saying it cant be done and twice foolishly getting talked into thinking I can do it. Im now at a loose end. I just cant get it to work, I can get it to do what they want, but there are massive implications that they just arent thinking of and I now when it gets used to problems will be huge!

 

So, ive had enough. Ive been stressed, lost a lot of sleep and had my confidence knocked for too long now. I have a meeting with the main guy tomorrow and while we are on the road im just going to have to tell him that I physically and menatally can no longer carry on. Its taking too mcuh time and too much resource. Ive spoken to all users and everyone is scared of the idea, they are all just nodding dogs.

 

Anyway enough is enough im not doing it anymore. The architecture and db schema's will simply not allow it without an extensive re-write. The guy who originally made it when asked "what level is the system normalised to" to my sheer terror replies "What is normilisation?" and thats about it. Now I have worked on the system for 5 years so I can keep it going, I can make mods easily I can make new functions and routines for it easily. What I havent been able to do for 12 month is get these new codes to work.

 

So when I throw the towel in tomorrow and I really am washing my hands of it, its not fair to keep forcing me to do something which just isnt possible. 3 companies have abandoned it now leaving just me.

 

Can I get the sack for refusing to carry on with it anymore?

 

 

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