You know what really grinds my gears?!

[Senor_Taylor]

Don't let me seem like a grump who doesn't care about the client. There are a lot of situations I have meetings with PMs to discuss client use cases and propose changes. However, I'm not going to have much sway in product direction, which is okay, since I don't know the ins and outs of product design. That said, I've been a factor in a couple changes that are about to shake up my main product for the better from a usability stand point.

This specific scenario I'm angry about today is not something we should change. They were importing date time fields from an Excel file and they were seeing the 00:00:000 appended to the end and they were angry about it. It's their fault for using a date time field and importing it into a text field. They don't understand that just because you format the Excel file to not show the time on the date, it doesn't mean the time is gone. The 0s that represent midnight are still there. This kind of case work is completely beneath my pay grade and should have never been brought to me. This is why I'm angry that consultant is saying this.

It seems like we're all on the same page about this, though. I think everyone's points they've made all are very valid in their own context.