Okay here am I working my ass off in the morning answering to hordes of customers (I guess Sales must have made an impact again) when one of the old project manager walked up to me.

Manager: "Dude, really need your help."
Me: "What up?"
Manager: "We need a fast coder, someone with your capabilities."
Me: "Anyone you have in mind?"
Manager: "Yeah, you!"

Hmm, looks like these guys actually might be serious for this once.

Me: "Okay, so what you need for the project?"
Manager: "Orait, we need an online order form. Something like purchasing book over Ebay but the collection will manually be done by our administrator. This is used for us to sell T-Shirt & bookmarks and the fund collected will be used to aid the tsunami victims."
Me: "Sounds fair. What is my time limit?"
Manager: "Eight hours."
Me: "You got yourself a deal. What you need on the online form?"
Manager: "We're selling t-shirts and bookmarks."
Me: "Now remember this, a deal is always a deal."
Manager: "Deal!"

So I've coded the online form whole morning and I finally finished it, coupled with lots of filter, help, description and even the nifty little check out button. Once my eight hours are up, I presented the project to the manager. The manager approved of the project. However, there's his idiot assistant which came around and told me they're not selling bookmark anymore.

This has caused a problem because to make a job fast, I choose to hardcode my project. A softcode project will take longer to complete but it'll be a hassle-free if they choose to do modification on the content.

Well, how can that be? Yours truly is a master coder and actually I have ways to have a shortcut on the process. However, since the idiot ASShole ASSistant actually blindly started this project without a proper through check, I'll give her a real problem just to boot.

So back to the manager...

Me: "Well, if you want me to make this whole changes, it would take another 8 hours."
Manager: "Eh, cannot make it faster ar?"
Me: "I don't have the resources."
Manager's Assistant: "But since you have the original code, you can rewrite the whole thing faster mar!"
Me: "Perhaps you care to write the code?"

The ASSistant kept quiet during the whole discussion. Apparently she's the one responsible for the procurement of the T-Shirts and bookmarks. She already knew that the bookmark sale was off even before the manager approached me for this project. Since she didn't update me during the project initiation, I'll make sure she will have a hard time dealing with me.