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I was outside bitching about the intermittent slow down in our network, and a super pissy user who thinks the problem is related to our system and flat out disbelieves it when I told him other systems were having issues.

So the guys outside were bitching about our admin-ish folk. When revealing the link that the head of this admin-clan was the mother of a systems admin here there was much discussion on the relative age of both parties. Falloutboy pipped up "what if they are lying about family relationship for some reason?". The other guy immediately responded "Why would the daughter lie about that? It would be like claiming Hitler was your relative!".

Hilter jokes - always funny.

I drug my ass out of bed and got to work relatively on time today. That's good. Then as I walked in the door and looked at my white board I am angry at Meeting?s all over again for being such a dipweed.

Did I seriously spend half my day yesterday tracking down an error he put in a long time ago because he can't do basic comp sci level math?

When you are looking for a percentage... and this is your formula..
a - b * 100 / b
.. and your numbers are in the nine-hundred-thousands level of places... maybe.. just maybe something might be wrong?

Side note for the mathematically forgetful, the order of operations are multiplication and division is done first.. left to right.. then addition and subtraction left to right.

So his statement above would evaluate as the following (the inner most parens get done first then work out:
a-[(b*100)/b]

What he wanted was:
[(a-b)/b]*100

So Meeting? didn't just bungle the ordering he totally f'd it up. He's been "let go" for almost a year and still his code is kicking us in the nuts.

Nerd rage!

So GoodWill was confirmed to have been let go as a contractor for us. My sneaky suspicions may have played a part. Damn weirdo burning cds of our software keys and programs. I hope they take his ass to court for his illegal use of our licensing.

Side note - I think I have hammered out our design for the flying machine. I just need to review it with Management.

I am trying to figure out why we are listening to Jefe at all regarding how CB is handled from now and into the future. Really.. she makes random sweeping changes to straight forward fixes to address things the rest of the system can't handle.

Okay.. follow me on this one. We have similar data in two different databases. There is an instance where if a user creates a cost code in database A, doesn't click the "refresh" on the budget screen, and then the cost code list in database B doesn't know there is something new from database A. The users type the new cost code number on the fly in our budget screen. The system treats it as a new cost code on *that* side.. gives it a default type (the user over looked keeping it the same).. then saves. A synch process is kicked off, and the original type information in the database A is over written.. hell breaks loose.

Sticks is working on the fix. Wonderful. He "finds" the solution (though that was written by me in the work request), and I suggest the solution is if we save in the new cost code screen refresh the list of cost codes in the budget screen. Bam! Easy cheesey..

Except.. EXCEPT... jefe gets involved...

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Wow.. so the amount of seething anger from our "cost of living increase" is palpable. I feel like a sucker or a chump for working so many late hours for as little as I got. Ug. Though is there even anything out there?