The "Just Make It Work" Philosophy

How many of you have a boss who's work philosophy is "Just make it work"? Well, I do. It drives me fucking nuts. I work for a company who deals with mobile technology creating web sites that work for computers and mobile phones alike. However, within this company, EVERYTHING they use is open source and they refuse to use any commercial product other than Exchange for the server and email, and I'm even skeptical that they paid for that.

When I'm working on a new script, or modifying an existing script, I try to take every precaution to ensure that it's done right; make sure the HTML and CSS are valid, double check the PHP to ensure it validates the forms properly, etc etc. You know, the normal everyday web development bullshit people do when working on a script.

Well, when it comes to this place, "Just make it work" rings loud and clear. Corners are cut, essential error checking is skipped, and user input sterilization is bypassed in order to meet some self-made deadline (a deadline that COULD be changed, but isn't because those who make the deadlines promise things that don't exist yet to people who've already paid for them).

Any company that utilizes the "Just make it work" philosophy deserves to go out of business.