I really thought Mark was going to punch people yesterday... specifically The Fox. Seriously - this was two or three different moves to production that were being tested for weeks but in the last twenty-four hours suddenly all these errors and busted code are shown. If I believe TheFox was a malicious individual I would say he was finding bugs while testing, not reporting them to us, and then in the last minute dump them on us to make him look good and us bad.... but I can't believe he would do that. I am at least happy they didn't move to production.


So after Mark's near melt down, BJ's deflated self esteem (stupid CCAllocation beast he was working on for six months was the deal breaker yesterday), and my sense of 'fuuuuuck it' we regrouped today to review what work was left and if it was needed. Remember my project, and a whole slew of others, were put on "life support" or outright killed... so all the work we were doing really doesn't matter for these patches. Just small rivets to make the boat continue on down the river before we light her a flame.

It's funny that for the last three weeks someone (never heard of the contractor) wanted this environment called UAT updated. Hahaha.. well after bungles of attempting to figure out what (database, .net code, or both?) was needed more people started squawking about it (those being roped in for their systems). It's freaking hysterical. This contractor, who I'll call AJ, doesn't know what's happening. People can't get shit to test right.. they can't even get their stuff rolled in let alone figure out who to report these problems to. So I stepped in getting the roll in figured out (so I could move my crap and be done with it)... then saw a flurry of "Please advise" emails... Let me tell you I hate.. hate.. HATE when people throw out some comment and end with "please advise". Why folks do that I don't know... but instead of walking the thirty feet down to slap the guy I googled his error and sent some information... as well as made it clear I am not the one in charge.. oh well this nebulous "move to UAT" moves forward on it's on volition sans some head directing.

Thankfully I am off tomorrow.

Oh and I am totally going to be buying one of these: Stuffed Pedestrian Bear