Random Rants
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Not really a rant, but not really an announcement. More of a stream of consciousness flow. Been one hell of a month, especially when contrasted from the month before. 1 months ago = Japan = amazing. This month, a lot of work projects that were assigned to my team fell of the rails as I was not there to keep them on track. The cascading effect of it falling of, each day the further off it got, the harder it is to bring back. I've spent the last 4 weeks fighting my ass off to get things back on track. Service outages to customers, questions raised by general manager and managing director if we're the right team to manage the platform we've built and supported for over the last year. Effectively I've been backed into a corner where the only way out is to undo most of the work done whilst I was away, whilst having to deal with client outages as a result of being in the corner I'm in.
New guy starting on Monday is coming into a war zone as far as things are concerned. Things reached a point yesterday where I sat down with the execs saying things were so dire, that if we couldn't get a fix to a specific problem by Wednesday that I'd pack my bags before going home on Tuesday night as we'd of put the company out of business. A bug in a vendor's code base that we'd only became aware of on Friday morning, but due to the speed it was screwing us over, we had those 5 days to get it all fixed. We'd been looking in general all week as something didn't seem right, and had already escalated quite high within the vendor's company and had a crisis manager on the case, but that still didn't get technical resolution. 3pm on Friday one of my guys on his own discovered the fix. Not the conversations I want to be having, and the first time I've ever had to say that I was going to put the entire company out of business in days. I've been doing this for 15+ years and never even been close.
So 3+ weeks of 14 hour days, plus family driven weekends, I now finally have a day to myself, having slept in, it's now 24c /74f outside, and going to be a beautiful day doing sweet feck all.
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Good luck dude! Hope it all gets sorted!!!
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That sounds super crap Wade, get some well earned chill time.
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First world problem bitch, "ooh, look at the poor little rich boy having to clean his own massive balcony"
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I would try to give the benefit of the doubt and contact him. Maybe he will offer to do Paypal over a bit towards the repair. There is Always a possibility it was an honest mistake it wasn't mentioned, or what's more the guy just may have not been as concerned with such things as you
You have given me the courage to do so, I'll update on his response.
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And in a bizarre bit of karma, I am currently listening to "I'm Gonna Be" by The Proclaimers for the second time this weekend. Not by choice.
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Rant - the world's most expensive proxy service:
You can buy them for $370 + shipping from 2nd, or pay this guy $1000 via ebay to do it for you. WTF?
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When you fuck up your back , you expect to deal with a lot. What you can't prepare for though is loss of motor function, and it has a tendency to happen at inopportune times. Like butt naked in the shower. I moved wrong and essentially pinched a nerve causing my leg to go numb, which resulted in a face plant against the shower wall.
Completely frustrating and embarrassing when you need help dragging your broken ass off the shower floor. The lesson here, take care of yourself and never take the little shit for granted.
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Woke up having a shitty Monday, another doctor's bill in the mailbox and my central air unit sounding like it's gonna go out. Multiple phone calls from work during my morning commute indicate a shittier day ahead. Get to work and my boss wants to see me in his office…... He's sending me and my wife to Perdido Beach, Florida this week to attend a conference in his place. Then tells me he wants to talk about my future here!
My day just got a whole lot better. -
Woke up having a shitty Monday, another doctor's bill in the mailbox and my central air unit sounding like it's gonna go out. Multiple phone calls from work during my morning commute indicate a shittier day ahead. Get to work and my boss wants to see me in his office…... He's sending me and my wife to Perdido Beach, Florida this week to attend a conference in his place. Then tells me he wants to talk about my future here!
My day just got a whole lot better.Glad to hear my brother. Ole Miss wins the west too!
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Found out yesterday that my dad has bowel cancer. He's not felt right for the past two years apparently and never went to the bloody doctor as for some bizarre fucking reason both my parents believe that you shouldn't go to the doctor, ever, as they will misdiagnose you.
Didn't stop my mum shouting at him for a solid hour as to why he hadn't been sooner, even though she's the worst culprit (she wouldn't go herself recently and it took the birth of my son to make her go, as she wasn't allowed to see him due to the fact that both her eyes were leaking pus).
Now my mum is talking like the poor bugger is already dead whilst I'm trying to put a positive spin on it for my dads sake and to be supportive but she is relentlessly going through every possible scenario - which includes repeatedly telling all friends and relatives over the phone, to the extent that she is reading them all the medical report in relentless detail, including the fact that my dad has piles. For fucks sake.
Not posting this for sympathy but simply to get it off my fucking chest so apologies!
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