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  Bartol Lepej
 
  Role: Database developer

Compared to young, dynamic and inexperienced Senka, Bartol was quite a different character. He had a much experience and Dodoni computing was the sixth firm he worked for. During his career he has been on different job positions, ranging from plain developer to database administrator, database developer and even project manager. Dodoni hired him as a database developer and he was responsible for database design and implementation in nearly all company products.

From Zakro and Erich's point of view, Bartol was a difficult personality and had attitude problems. According to them, he was always pessimistic, cynical and had bad sense of humour. They also didn't like him because he always pointed out to problems and raised questions about issues other people ignored or were afraid to ask. In political environment such as Dodoni, that was a big crime. Problems simply didn't exist, everything was great, we were the champions! How dared you spoil that dream?

In time Bojan realized that Bartol was a real expert in his field and that he knew very much about programming. His only problem was that he couldn't keep his mouth shut when he saw incompetence and stupidity around him. It was also obvious that he somehow lost the motivation along the way. His motto was: "There is no point in fighting lost battles. You cannot change stupid managers and colleagues, you can only lose your nerves and health. Do the job correctly so they can't blame you, get paid and then seek enjoyment and pleasure outside of the workplace."

First time Bartol realized that he and Bojan could become friends was when Bojan took his and Senka's side on famous workshop. Like them, Bojan was also a proponent of planning, coding standards and quality in contrast to heroic code-like-hell programming philosophy that dominated in Dodoni computing.

Later, when they started to work together on the same project, he was even more amazed by Bojan because unlike other colleagues who approached Bartol every time they needed something, Bojan wrote complete specification of all his database requirements for the current project. Bartol used that document as a template that he handed to all developers in hope they would start to use it. Unfortunately, some of them ignored his intention and continued to disrupt him with questions and tasks every time they found appropriate, even they knew that such behaviour pissed Bartol a lot. The prime ignorant and constant Bartol enemy was Dodoni's head developer himself, Krunoslav Bazdic Stinky.
 

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