On call just started at 2100 last night. Phone rang at 0230. Going to be a long rotation.

Similar call from a few weeks ago that took 13 hours to resolve. Oh boy.

Kick ass!

Uh, tell whoever broke it that the last guy didn’t fix it right in 13 hours if it happened again.

Then go back sleep.

Good luck!

@jamescodesthing I just told the people who broke it to stop fucking around and repair it.

@QueenMorgana awhhhh yisss, good job!

@jamescodesthing I got in trouble for being too blunt. But then got coffee and cake. 😂

@QueenMorgana blunt my arse.

If someone does something wrong, you should be able to tell them clearly that they did so.

You did a good job, fuck those guys.

I hope that coffee and cake was just the touch!

@jamescodesthing I'm supposed to be more gentle when I tell them we didn't break anything and it must be somewhere between them and us. Lol

@QueenMorgana don’t worry I was told this week that it’s improper to tell a senior architect: his Visio diagram had less value than toilet paper because at least toilet paper wouldn’t leave ink on my arse.

I also had my 7th conversation about how it’s not polite to say a team of enterprise techs are fucking incompetent if they can’t see that a $300 AWS server was a better option than a £250m internal server.

All the while telling the pm that his kidney stones were directly caused by the stress he put himself under by not listening to his lead developer (not me)...

Sometimes a spade is a spade and an incompetent fuckwit is an incompetent fuckwit.

Oh and I handed in my notice because middlemanagement at my current stable is a fucking nightmare.

@jamescodesthing damn. I think only our CIO could get away with that. But she'd also find a way to get the person to admit they're fuckwits before she needed to resort to name calling. Fucking love that woman. And our director. Sweet women. Until they're not. 😂

@QueenMorgana

I sent an email naming the useless googling fuck who had been causing all our trouble to all of the senior managers... in their “I have a concern, I wish I knew and how to” language.

It was hilarious, I have the ceo and cto’s ear on the subject because it’s a horrific situation.

It’s a ftse 100 too so I do enjoy that I can get away with it.

“I wish I knew why [fuckwit] was a useless fuck”

Honestly, sometime I’ll redact the email and post it as a rant with the position of the people I posted it to 😂

I’ve resigned now, I can no longer work in a company that doesn’t listen to it’s devs. But this was all done with the full intention of staying in the company.

Here’s the summary of the various responses:
- my manager called me immediately and asked me to revoke it before it had been read (denied that request, I was out having a cigarette)
- his manager sat me down and said “all your points are valid but that is not the way to deliver them”, my retort was that I’d tried their way for 4 months and made no progress.
- the fuckwit’s manager: stunned silence
- the project team pissing 250k up the wall: “oh shit, they’re gonna see us, quick, hide!”
- the CEO: “thank you, please sit down with the CTO asap to discuss this further”
- the CTO: “everyone told me everything was fine, please for the love of god fill me in”

Turns out when you make moves with your balls, have evidence to back your opinion and deliver it gracefully... people listen.

I’ve resigned, I hope the CTO finds the time for me this month but if not, I hope someone with a similar stature and prowess takes my place.

Oh the reason too, this prick was googling the words we said in the meeting and passing back a response like “it’s all fine guys, I fixed it, we can use [completely unrelated technology]”

Me and the other dev know what we’re talking about (Morpheus, see my recent rants if you fancy a related giggle).

So to have some useless cunt google and give us the first search result is fucking insulting.

The rule is: if you don’t know something, say so. Then, defer to the people that do, and learn you some goodness.

Fuck that prick, I hope he’s reshuffled out of the organisation in the next big cull.

Also, we have a strong female CTO and CEO as well. Lovely people with mad balls, who listen to you no matter how much you sound like a crack head shouting at the busses.

If I could I’d replace middle management with women, they do a better job at it.

@jamescodesthing it's cuz we have to deal with fucktards who believe that we still belong in church, I'm the kitchen, or with the children. (I like it better in German, great alliteration: Kinder, Kirche, Küche).

As a general rule, our bullshit detectors are on point and we can think multi threaded thoughts with ease. Not always, but usually.

@QueenMorgana

The multi threaded thought processing is definitely a benefit that helps there.

I had to learn body language, joe navarro’s and the pease’s book both explain that gents generally have fewer threads to run on. Ekman’s Work backs that. But I had to learn to see when people are truthful or not.

Women just see it. No formal education and they can see what needs to be done, when someone is not confident in what they’re saying... it’s impeccable.

I find my female managers and seniors are usually more effective, more able to deal with larger problems, and empathetic to death.

I also get BL reads on the seniors whenever I can for the fun of knowing what they’re thinking. My CEO is honest as hell.

I also love reading the women in my team’s code, it’s always different to the guys and they’re usually thinking 5 steps ahead and accross a few classes where I would one-track it.

@jamescodesthing sometimes, though, we see too many options. Lol. This is why we need balance!