this does get old! It has been a hectic week with all the testing and trying to solve defects fast. Last night was the migration of all the fixed code for the defects and the testers are checking things out today. So far I have managed about 3 hours of work, then I took off for the fitness center for walking/cycling. I stayed a bit longer than I thought I would but I feel fairly good about that. When I got home there were several emails about a problem . . . which isn't really a problem. This part drives me nuts . . . we spend a lot of time researching data, fixing the programs that go collect that data, explain to the tech ppl on the other side the limitations of what is retrieved (trying to make this short) and they still go ballistic sending me back emails saying "this is wrong and you need to fix it" . . . TG, the manager over both sides of this (me on the PeopleSoft side and those portal developers on the SAP side) is a bit more savvy and he stepped in with the explanation about why "it isn't a problem".
I have a few other choice things to say about a response I got in a phone call yesterday from one of those SAP developers and after I got off that call, I turned around and called a friend/co-worker to ask her how she would feel if this had been said to her. Basically, the guy told me that he was always able to work with my predecessor (a guy) with no problems . . . he asked lots of questions and they worked things out!! Excuse me!!! I took over this stuff in "working" condition from that "guy". Working according to how they "worked it out". Just because they developed in a vacuum without the real live data and now the real live data is causing problems . . . well, "excuse me" one more time . . . my predecessor is a smart guy with whom I have a fairly good working relationship . . . BUT I am not HIM (or is that he, lol??). My female co-worker agrees with me that there could be a sexist dynamic going on here . . . seeing as how the other side is from another country that has problems with women traditionally. He is a nice guy . . . but I don't understand some of this stuff. And darn it, I have probably been in IT for as many years as he has been alive!!!! I don't claim to know everything and I know I have limitations and I know I make mistakes . . . but cut me some slack . . . I am one person supporting this side and they have a team. I get barraged with emails from multiple ppl whenever a problem arises so I feel like they are ganging up on me. Sometimes I feel like they try to pass off the problems on me, but I know there are a lot of data issues that need to get ironed out on how we pass the data. Catch-22.
OK, time to quite the "bitchin" and go out to the car to unload those bags of mulch I bought a couple of days ago . . . still trying to "winterize" the garden . . . work interferes with lots of things.
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