How you calm yourself down...
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...when you realize, that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features... (add to it, that you had a nice meeting about that feature and you mentioned 3 pitfalls of the implementation - of them 2 weren't resolved)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
I once had a boss (former coder--always a bad combination) who had been hounding me for months to implement a feature that I had explained was pretty much going to require someone full-time to maintain because it was going to have to work with constantly changing data. One weekend he wrote the "feature" himself and bragged about it to me on Monday morning. It's one of those features that worked on his system, but pretty much nowhere else--ever. Lets just say that it worked okay for 0.000001% of the data it had to work with. Then the feature became a bullet point in the marketing material. Fortunately it became apparent that nobody but him actually cared, because in the end nobody bought the product because of the feature (or else everybody would've complained it didn't work).
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...when you realize, that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features... (add to it, that you had a nice meeting about that feature and you mentioned 3 pitfalls of the implementation - of them 2 weren't resolved)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Everything depends from the situation, so I have many ways to calm myself - reading, screaming or just deap breath
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...when you realize, that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features... (add to it, that you had a nice meeting about that feature and you mentioned 3 pitfalls of the implementation - of them 2 weren't resolved)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
You write stuff. Some idiot breaks it. You get paid to fix it. Repeat ad infinitum. Dispiriting, maybe, but if there weren't so many human wrecking balls in the IT trade, there wouldn't be all that many jobs in the IT trade. The bottom line? WE NEED BAD DEVELOPERS!
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Followed by a slow decline in productivity, years of lethargy, and a sudden interest in other more rewarding activities. :)
You forgot losing the will to live somewhere along that road.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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...when you realize, that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features... (add to it, that you had a nice meeting about that feature and you mentioned 3 pitfalls of the implementation - of them 2 weren't resolved)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
It sucks when people just go ahead and do that - if you work in IT long enough it's bound to happen. I would just say make it clear to them that they get to clear up the mess as they acted against your advice and when you weren't there.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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No! 'Vacations are short'! I should get back AFTER the errors are handled...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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The path to self-discovery is rarely an easy one to traverse. ;)
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It was more the path to self destruction.
I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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...when you realize, that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features... (add to it, that you had a nice meeting about that feature and you mentioned 3 pitfalls of the implementation - of them 2 weren't resolved)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features
I call that epic team work and communication....not. Good luck with that. Been there so many times, I can't feel the pain. :)
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This is one of those learning moments. The one where you learn "it's just a job, I am emotionally detached from it." Followed by a slow decline in productivity, years of lethargy, and a sudden interest in other more rewarding activities. :)
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You nailed it! That is happening to me. I sent out a requirements document last evening and my mentee/junior went around behind my back this morning, straight to the business unit and contradicted the agreed requirements. And to make things worse, she already started coding; which means I'll end up rewriting it.
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...when you realize, that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features... (add to it, that you had a nice meeting about that feature and you mentioned 3 pitfalls of the implementation - of them 2 weren't resolved)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Or, after a long, and delayed, flight to Europe and a welcome sleep at the hotel, you finally log into your email only to be confronted by a message full of exclamation points that your library is crashing causing the world to end. This is followed by the message, "Never mind, I fixed it." You groan, knowing that said developer is, shall we say, less than knowledgeable. You get back, look at the "fix" and discover it's completely wrong and causes far worse problems (for which you are now blamed.) You check the original bug report and discover the person who filed it is using your API incorrectly. (Then you discover that there was a bug, but it had nothing to do with all the hysteria and, in fact, nobody has actually triggered it.) True story from 1992 at a large, at the time, network company.
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...when you realize, that a new feature has been added to the application while you were on vacation and it ruined half of the existing features... (add to it, that you had a nice meeting about that feature and you mentioned 3 pitfalls of the implementation - of them 2 weren't resolved)
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Think of a happy thought, nothing's constant.
