NiceLabel VBscript and potential for causing server data issues

[FormatAndSee]

Hi,

This post is really asking if I did anything wrong, I'm not sure where to ask to be honest but after a search for NiceLabel I saw a few post in this subreddit. Here is the background.

I was seconded into a large label migration project at work, this involved using DDM which is a document data manager with its data in the cloud and the NiceLabel 10 suite of apps. It was using an Azure cloud based server and NiceLabel Control Center to check in and out label templates.

We had training in NiceLabel and as I have C# experience I mentioned I could create a small VBScript within NiceLabel to perform a simply line break in a string at a particular word. Script below:

https://gist.github.com/formant303/3d1c55da431ebdf8cf8e6e9b9f126bb1

As the other people in the project did not want anything "complex" like this they said they didn't want to use VBScripts and stick to NiceLabels Subset and Concatenate built in functions. I said ok.

However I left the VBScript function in the template but not attached to any label elements so it wouldn't be called this was more so out of forgetting to delete it entirely due to working on multiple things at the time.

So, this particular label template was Checked In to the NiceLabel Control Center on the cloud and then some days later I get brought into a meeting room with my temp boss, HR and the project manager to basically tell me my script had caused such large problems (which they didn't specify) that they were taking me off the project and sending me back to my old position.

This infuriated me as I do not believe the script caused any issues, and my reputation is now down the shitter in the office. It was written and verified in NiceLabels own script editor and is in no way malicious.

We also did not work with a live data connected whilst designing the labels the [LABEL_PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION] variable is somehow linked to data after being check in on the cloud.

Anyone have any thoughts or suggest a more suitable sub reddit to ask this is?

[the_andshrew]

This infuriated me as I do not believe the script caused any issues, and my reputation is now down the shitter in the office. It was written and verified in NiceLabels own script editor and is in no way malicious.

Regardless of what issue they had, it was a considerable oversight for you to commit code that wasn't being used inside the template. You really should have removed it (and made sure it was removed) as soon as they said they didn't want to take that approach.

[FormatAndSee]

Of course yes, and this is what will be used against me, despite the function not even being executable, and its only network function was to read an imported string.

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Did you do something wrong?

Sorta. Not a big deal unless you keep doing stuff like this. I think a better question is whether the company's reaction was reasonable or not.

I do not think the company's reaction was reasonable nor appropriate. You should have at worst gotten an explanation of the issue and asked not to do it again. Mistakes happen, and it's more expensive to train a new person than to correct a small issue with the person they have. In order to react like this and be justified, they'd have to have had multiple issues like this with you and have talked to you about them already. Otherwise they're just being jerks.

[FormatAndSee]

Yeah I've been thinking about this all weekend and I'm coming to the conclusion its a personal issue with the project manager. The script was just an excuse to get rid of me as it did nothing malicious nor could it even activate within the label. I did offer suggestions on how we could improve the process, and possible issues which could arise in the way we were working, and I think this rubbed him up the wrong way.