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Heh, if I was on a big development team, that might work... But I'm a front-office solo developer... Can't hand anything off to anyone.
They actually WANT me to go through "channels" any time I need to apply an update or bugfix to the software... But if something breaks down, I need to be able to apply a fix within minutes, not days. Can't seem to get the parent company (Which supplies our IT infrastructure) to understand that.
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There is a logical and simple method for getting this fixed.
Next time you can, put out a bug that will in some obscure manner completely lock the system out of mission critical data. Have some easy to implement solution ready.
When all hell breaks loose, state, with absolute certainty, that you "have to have admin rights to the necessary servers, NAO!!!!"
Make sure the servers you want for this and any other such projects are in there.
Fix the issue, blame it on some "obscure hardware interaction with the language on the machine level" and state you couldn't test it in a comparable environment to the production systems because you spent the last 4 months trying to get access to those systems.
Then tell them in order to prevent the loss of a few million again, whatever bonehead has been blocking you needs to shut up and let you do the work.
Not that I'd do this in your shoes...
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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Evil, man... Pure evil 
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postulate 1: Suit wearing business units only respond to the loss or acquisition of capital.
postulate 2: Information technology directly influences the loss or acquisition of capital but does so in a mostly invisible manner.
postulate 3: Managers wish to please suit wearing units, while they do not understand the information technology aspect of capital acquisition or loss.
postulate 4: In order to please the suits, managers will attempt to stall anything that might cause disruption of capital acquisition.
hypothesis: If one makes the IT aspect of capital acquisition suddenly and violently visible in a negative meanner, any stalling caused by managers is withdrawn in order to please the business suits.
You need only experiment to test this hypothesis.
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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Except I'm in one of the suit-wearing business units, and I get paid slightly more if they do well
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Happiness = pay+leisure+sex+toys/amountofworkneededtogetthem
Is being paid better enough to make up for the amount of work those managers are adding to the bottom?
Otherwise, a little bit of a reminder as to the state of the universe and their place in it is in order.
translation: convincing them to eff off and get out of your way might = happiness++
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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Really? C'mon - if you were going to quit you'd have done it before now. Start asserting yourself! Get your name known and get your name hated! It's a bloody liberating experience, that's for sure, and it gets stuff done!
Otherwise you're just going to repeat the same experience everywhere you go. Honestly, you will*. Read 'em the riot act in the martin_hughes style (swear a lot!) and you'll go far! Above all, remember that matey jim the CEO, his fiends and everyone else in his clique bleeds exactly the same way as everyone else who "happens", unfortunately, to be in the way of a swinging bat. There's nothing special about any of them.
*Unless you do the big time on SF authorship, that is
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martin_hughes wrote: Unless you do the big time on SF authorship, that is
I'm hoping to manage that before the financial industry drives me sane
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If there is one thing you should not have to worry about it is that the financial indusrty will drive anyone sane.
If I have accidentally said something witty, smart, or correct, it is purely by mistake and I apologize for it.
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Except I'm already insane, so there's really only one direction left to go.
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Ian Shlasko wrote: the financial industry
Say no more.
The only industry I have encountered whose inefficiency exceeds that of government.
Bob Emmett
CSS: I don't intend to be a technical writing, I intend to be a software engineer.
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I sympathise greatly.
When Desklamps Attack [BOFH][^]
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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Haha, nice!
Ok, that just cheered me up
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I have seen enough things like this to be virtually boggle-proof.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Beautiful 
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Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad is one of my favourite set of sci-fi short stories, the rest are worth a read.
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Some people think it's Duct Tape that binds the Universe together. Wrong! It's really Red Tape.
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I am sitting in front of my PC with my back to the TV. It is tuned to the French Open tennis and because I have my back to it, I essentially have sound only.
From the commentary I know that the match is a Russian vs a German.
All that I can hear is:
ghuuuuhhhhh,thwack - oooommmpaaah,thwack
ghuuuuhhhhh,thwack - oooommmpaaah,thwack
ghuuuuhhhhh,thwack - oooommmpaaah,thwack
ghuuuuhhhhh,thwack - oooommmpaaah,thwack
with an occasional change to
oooommmpaaah,thwack - ghuuuuhhhhh,thwack
oooommmpaaah,thwack - ghuuuuhhhhh,thwack
After about 15 minutes of this, overcome by curiosity, I turned to watch. My suspicions were confirmed.
Anyone care to hazard a guess at the nationality of the 'oooommmpaaah' girl?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
Why do programmers often confuse Halloween and Christmas?
Because 31 Oct = 25 Dec.
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Andorian??? 
If I could code, I'd be dangerous... My Blog[ ^]
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Henry Minute wrote: Anyone care to hazard a guess at the nationality of the 'oooommmpaaah' girl?
Obviously, she's an oompa loompaian
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Douglas Troy wrote: Obviously, she's an oompa loompaian
Oompa Loompa Doopity Doo
I've got some real questions for you
Oompa Loompa Doopity Dee
If you are smart you'll listen to me
why bounce on a knee till you get pain?
torn cartilage and surgeries are plain.
The bucks are in programming anyway
So sit at a desk and just waste a way... 
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John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Henry Minute wrote:
Anyone care to hazard a guess at the nationality of the 'oooommmpaaah' girl?
Loompaland in the region of Loompa, a small isolated island in the Pacific Ocean.... Is she using a candy-cane tennis racket?
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John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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