I once wrote a small program for a department in my company and they didn't think it was good enough. I added a small progress bar to the front that literally just incremented a counter at even intervals and they went nuts for how robust I had made it and loved it. It was a 3 second loop that flashed a modal with the word "loading..." and a progress bar that did nothing but count to 100 by 1 and it changed the perception of the complexity. I eventually took that out, citing a performance improvement.,(reply>), @Jartran72 in general, not in this particular case. Obviously. Dont be obtuse,(reply>), Google learned the hard way that people are stupid, and programmers need to be smart enough to pretend to be slightly stupid for the average person to keep pace. Long story short, your company is full of idiots. Seems about par for the corporate world.,(reply>), @Timothy Stockman The feature he already took out will catch up to him? Interesting perspective.,(reply>), IMHO, fooling users like this is a poor programming practice. It will catch up with you in the end.,(reply>), @MowLawner it's  important because what if a computer gets stuck in a loop ypu need to knpw