16/09: Whoops..
New story in keeping me down and out while at work.
Mystery problem lands in my lap this morning. The guy who usually takes care of this (and subsequently runs herd on the offshore group that has taken over maintenance of my old platform) is out on family leave. Okay. The error was some what destructive since the it saved a duplicate-that-isn't-quite-a-duplicate detail line extra for each line supposed to saved. This caused a constraint problem on a load and it appeared that nothing came back, but in fact it did. Basically it took it out of the normal states, injected some problems, and mis represented what state it really is. It shouldn't have been that hard of a problem, but it was. Not to mention that every ten minutes meeting? was in my office distracting me with issues I told him before on (and thought he wrote down the answers).
Oh, and I was able to correct enough of the data on production for this screen so the user could go in and delete it. That uncovered another problem since after she deleted the form the user couldn't reuse the number even though it said she would be able to. This user's job required her to keep a sequence of numbers for this particular form (a supply demand form) and would have caused much grief, delay, and paper work on their end to get it changed.
Towards the end of the day I get an email out to the appropriate people about what the state of the problem researched so far, the other problem I found, and that's about it. fine, moving on to what I was PLANNING to do that day I get stopped. Again. This time by DK.
DK has his super serious big boy face and voice on... was clearly annoyed... started in about what happened with the error... then told me a few things. First that the change to to production was wrong on so many levels it almost hurt. The SEC and audit could come in, notice my name in there, and toss me out to the cold... also that if I do it again I might get canned (sans work request that EVERYONE is required to know about)... and that my time is too precious to be wasted on this one user (who actually represents a lot of users that may have experienced the same problem (circa 10% or so says the Offshore guy). Total time should have been no more than 45 minutes, and the user should have gotten a new number to the supply demand form. Wow.. that's pretty heavy shit. Then he continues on about how the stuff I was *supposed* to be working on has caused him to fail for a whole day in work.
What?
Er?
How the hell does that work?
My changes, granted have to deal with the versioning, are not really related to what DK was describing. So he's pissed at me for that. Clearly. I ruined his whole day it seems. I looked at it, and no... I cannot get his problem to replicate (a database didn't copy things over from table A to table B). No my changes would not effect the whole thing, or I seriously doubt it.
*sigh*
Now I am just tired. Vague commentary about SEC crack downs, jobless ness, and misplaced anger over my time allocation/output today kills the motivation. I am guessing in tomorrow's standup meeting it will be addressed in full for the whole crowd to see what a bad person I am.
I think chinesse food sounds good tonight. A bit of that.. a big of 'Eureka'.. and some 'The Office' would make my outlook change. Now if I had a second TV and could watch 'Total Drama Island' (while watching the other two) life would be great! Maybe some iCarly... hahahaha..
Mystery problem lands in my lap this morning. The guy who usually takes care of this (and subsequently runs herd on the offshore group that has taken over maintenance of my old platform) is out on family leave. Okay. The error was some what destructive since the it saved a duplicate-that-isn't-quite-a-duplicate detail line extra for each line supposed to saved. This caused a constraint problem on a load and it appeared that nothing came back, but in fact it did. Basically it took it out of the normal states, injected some problems, and mis represented what state it really is. It shouldn't have been that hard of a problem, but it was. Not to mention that every ten minutes meeting? was in my office distracting me with issues I told him before on (and thought he wrote down the answers).
Oh, and I was able to correct enough of the data on production for this screen so the user could go in and delete it. That uncovered another problem since after she deleted the form the user couldn't reuse the number even though it said she would be able to. This user's job required her to keep a sequence of numbers for this particular form (a supply demand form) and would have caused much grief, delay, and paper work on their end to get it changed.
Towards the end of the day I get an email out to the appropriate people about what the state of the problem researched so far, the other problem I found, and that's about it. fine, moving on to what I was PLANNING to do that day I get stopped. Again. This time by DK.
DK has his super serious big boy face and voice on... was clearly annoyed... started in about what happened with the error... then told me a few things. First that the change to to production was wrong on so many levels it almost hurt. The SEC and audit could come in, notice my name in there, and toss me out to the cold... also that if I do it again I might get canned (sans work request that EVERYONE is required to know about)... and that my time is too precious to be wasted on this one user (who actually represents a lot of users that may have experienced the same problem (circa 10% or so says the Offshore guy). Total time should have been no more than 45 minutes, and the user should have gotten a new number to the supply demand form. Wow.. that's pretty heavy shit. Then he continues on about how the stuff I was *supposed* to be working on has caused him to fail for a whole day in work.
What?
Er?
How the hell does that work?
My changes, granted have to deal with the versioning, are not really related to what DK was describing. So he's pissed at me for that. Clearly. I ruined his whole day it seems. I looked at it, and no... I cannot get his problem to replicate (a database didn't copy things over from table A to table B). No my changes would not effect the whole thing, or I seriously doubt it.
*sigh*
Now I am just tired. Vague commentary about SEC crack downs, jobless ness, and misplaced anger over my time allocation/output today kills the motivation. I am guessing in tomorrow's standup meeting it will be addressed in full for the whole crowd to see what a bad person I am.
I think chinesse food sounds good tonight. A bit of that.. a big of 'Eureka'.. and some 'The Office' would make my outlook change. Now if I had a second TV and could watch 'Total Drama Island' (while watching the other two) life would be great! Maybe some iCarly... hahahaha..
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