Things I Hate / Things I Love
Things I love:
When I'm right
Things I hate:
When I'm right
Let me explain: Remember the awful time I was going through last year and the beginning of this one in that awful department at the BIG IMPORTANT UNIVERSITY I work at? Remember how I was saying the director there is an ass and a motherfucker but at the same time, I was kind of trying to be nice by saying that maybe it was just a personality conflict that caused it?
Yeah, I was right: he IS a motherfucking asshole.
This last week, I heard from some of my former co-workers. We were fairly friendly and I gave one of them a vague warning about what was going on with me and about how the director will probably treat them. This past week, I found how he's banned the four clerks from eating at their desk at all, plus they have to write down the exact time they're taking their breaks and lunch and can ONLY take their breaks and lunches at that time.
Not only that but the woman who took over my job (during a very difficult period, I might add), has been yelled at by the project manager with the company we contracted to do the programming (so the people they're PAYING to do work) and was called "uneducated" and routinely humiliated and talked down to. Does she get any backup from the department? Nope. M gets told that she should be nicer to L and that she should write nicer emails.
FUCK. THAT.
Those of you who know how to program, tell me this: if something in the program is standard, does this also mean that if it doesn't suit what the client needs, it's not customizable?
So, YAY I was right.
And BOO.
I'm really sad for them that I was right. I kind of hoped it was just me, that my personality clashed with his so much that he dedicated quite a bit of time tearing me down (and he seemed to; it was almost his second job). Unfortunately for them, the only thing I can suggest to them is talk to the union, tell them that he's harassing them and basically lobby the first blow. (wait, am I saying that right? I'm a little tired right now.)
Hopefully someone in a position of authority takes his head out of his ass and deals with this before he loses 4 clerks right before the new application cycle starts. Training new people at that time? Well... let's just say:
CLUSTER FUCK
Comments
Oh I hear ya sistah! I have seen similiar and experienced similiar.
The problem with a lot of people is that they put up with this kind of crap because they fear losing their job or worse, they fear making things worse. What these people need to understand is that if they band together, they can create change. If these 4 banded together and backed each other up to do somethng about this, it can't be swept under the rug or be chalked up to "personality". But most people won't band together and back each other up. It's something that has always put a bunch in my panties.
[this is true] I hate Corporate Template Programming. It is like asking everyone what flavor shake they want and then getting everyone vanilla.
WTF?
Dumb fuck IT people, the bane of my existence...
First excuse was Sarbanes/Oxley. I just laughed. I asked them, under the terms of the Act, just what was financial or sensitive in nature that required it to be under the Act? They stuttered and I laughed some more. Second excuse was that they didn't want me to crash the server with a malformed query. I laughed some more. I have already been using the current database for over five years and cannot recall a time when someone from Corporate had to get on a jet, fly down and fix a server that I mangled up.
Instead, I told the big bosses about that excuse and that if they did indeed put together a database system that was so flawed as to worry about one bad query shutting the whole thing down, if it was that unstable, they ought to pull the plug on the whole project and fire every last one of them. Bad part is, I think they are doing just that... LOL. Fuckers.
Yeah, make sure you get the Professional Version if doing any sort of Oracel or SQL database on a network. I talked to the other departments here and told them what to get, they went out and bought the regular version and guess what? Didn't work. Dummies...
Guess who told them to go cheaper and get the regular version? IT Department. Dumbass Dummies. They don't even have a clue as to what is on their own networks. <smack>