An eye opener for all you workaholics out there...
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Good post. There is *absolutely no point* working when you're tired. You get next to nothing useful done and you make mistakes. It also leads to burnout, which can be devastating. It (burnout) happened to me and also to a friend of mine, and it put us both in hospital (at different times). It took me a long time to figure all this out, but I've got it now. I work for myself nowadays so I can do what I like, but more employers need to understand this and to take proper care of the mental health of their staff. Sorry Sander, maybe a bit more than you were expecting, but I feel very strongly about this. PS: Take breaks. Take breaks, take breaks, take breaks.
Paul Sanders. If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal. Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
Paul Sanders (the other one) wrote:
There is absolutely no point working when you're tired.
I sometimes get into a work vibe when I stumble across a problem and I make it personal. Kind of an adrenaline rush I guess :laugh:
Paul Sanders (the other one) wrote:
Sorry Sander, maybe a bit more than you were expecting, but I feel very strongly about this.
I agree wholeheartedly though :D
Paul Sanders (the other one) wrote:
PS: Take breaks. Take breaks, take breaks, take breaks.
I take works from my break :omg:
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I was immortalized many years ago actually :laugh: You don't get to be in IT for twelve years without accidentally deleting a table or two in production (well, I never did that, but locking an entire database was pretty bad too) ;p
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Back in the mid-80’s at a former employer who did photo processing they did a major upgrade of the DEC PDO-11/70 systems located in their multiple film processing plants to Microvax. Each of the new Microvax systems was setup with two large hard drives with one being mirrored on the other. They were hot swappable so if something went wrong with one drive they could stop it and keep going with the other one while the bad drive was sent for repairs. So one morning at work we were alerted to a problem that a bunch of invoices were missing in one of the plants. It turned out that at this particular plant they had to get a hard drive repaired and when it came back a few days later they started mirroring the drives again only someone (not me, thankfully) did the mirroring in the wrong direction so the drive that had the old data overwrote the drive with the current data. I’m not sure what they ultimately did to get the data back since I don’t think there was a tape backup because of the disk mirroring (I think it was probably the same person who thought they no longer needed the redundant DECNet cross links between the plants) but I’m thinking one of the devs had to write something so some poor workers in the plant could do a bunch of data entry.
Classic! :laugh: Actually iTunes did that to my iPod once. First (and last) time I used it. Don't even own an iPod anymore now. No Apple a day keeps the doctor away :D
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My own experience was already commented so I won't repost. But... we (and another 4 factories) had around 6 weeks of isolation from the mother factory (no changes in the library, no backups of Prod-DB, no...) just because the main IT Department changed the IP of the production servers, without notifying it anywhere (not even locally) :mad::mad::mad: we were the first ones asking "why doesn't work anymore?" that triggered the look up of the colleagues at the main company. I had to submit around 280 change requests to each one of the 3 different firewalls in the factory nodes on the way to us... :doh: :doh: :doh: X| X| X|
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
What the :elephant: !? :wtf: Was this guy fired? Did he die in a freak "accident"? This is closer to sabotage than to ignorance X|
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This is a mostly thankless profession when things work and a barrage of complaining/whining when they don't! :laugh: I currently have too many people needing too many things all at once, reminding me of a recurring nightmare...a queue of angry customers, colleagues, and relatives lined up at my desk, waiting for me to 'fix their problems'. :omg: Current project: Ony 131 errors left and already a 90-minute call about it and what is taking so long! :confused:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
kmoorevs wrote:
This is a mostly thankless profession when things work and a barrage of complaining/whining when they don't! :laugh:
So true, unfortunately :sigh: I have one user of my software who regularly calls me with questions and lately change requests. He often starts with something like "Hi Sander, I was using your awesome software, which I really like and which makes my life so easy, when I stumbled upon a problem..." :laugh: He means it though, it's not meant as a joke :D He also often asks me when I'm on site again so we can chat up. Love that guy! :laugh:
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A friend of mine was dogged by slow Internet, well below the service levels he paid for. Since it was DSL based he figured it was phone company nonsense, and was an ongoing battle with the phone company over his service. He couldn't or wouldn't switch to cable, although I don't remember why. Anyway, eventually it comes up in conversation that he has a Windows 2008 Server machine that is Internet facing, running out of his home network. *headdesk* As soon as he said that, I was like "here's how to fix your Internet" Sure enough, half the network was basically a botnet for Kevin only knows who. He doesn't run servers out of his home anymore.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
honey the codewitch wrote:
He doesn't run servers out of his home anymore.
Maybe he just shouldn't run server anymore, period :laugh:
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honey the codewitch wrote:
He doesn't run servers out of his home anymore.
Maybe he just shouldn't run server anymore, period :laugh:
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Correct. :~
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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What the :elephant: !? :wtf: Was this guy fired? Did he die in a freak "accident"? This is closer to sabotage than to ignorance X|
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Sander Rossel wrote:
Was this guy fired?
Nope. The guy who did it, just did what he was ordered to. The explanation is: big OEM company. It is not that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. There are many times when not even the fingers of the same hand know what the others are doing.
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nobody will remember: - Your salary - Your fancy title - How "busy" you were - How stressed you were - How many hours you worked People will remember: - Your commit that caused a production issue. And I did just that this morning, immortality is mine!
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You either resign a hero, or code long enough to see yourself become the villain.
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You either resign a hero, or code long enough to see yourself become the villain.
So you felt yourself slipping away...? ;) How's the new job?
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