Category: My Life

Professionalism

10:57:16 AM workguy: can u fix svn!?

Ok, seriously. You don’t START a conversation like that. If there’s a problem, IM me and say. “I can’t get SVN to work, here’s the error I am getting”. The following 8 lines SHOULD not have been required.

10:57:28 AM me: what is wrong with it

10:57:33 AM workguy: i dunno i cant commit

10:57:35 AM me: CL e-mailed me yesterday and said he fixed it

10:57:49 AM workguy: doesnt work for me at all

10:57:53 AM me: do you get an erro?

10:57:57 AM workguy: yea

10:58:03 AM me: that might be helpful

10:58:14 AM workguy: Error: Commit failed (details follow):

Error: Can’t open file ‘/proj/svn/svn/db/transactions/2074-6.txn/node.0.0’: Permission denied

11:00:03 AM me: try now?

11:00:29 AM workguy: nothin

At this point, I go and search the forums, etc for answers. I find some, and try those out, but nothing works

11:44:57 AM me: try again. if this doesn’t work we’ll have to post in the forums

11:45:20 AM workguy: ?

11:45:22 AM workguy: post what

11:45:26 AM me: a question

11:45:28 AM me: about how to fix it

11:45:33 AM workguy: whos forums

Does it matter! You are NOT the one fixing it. Just F’ing answer my question as to if it works or not! Commentary from you is not needed

11:45:40 AM me: does it work

11:46:01 AM workguy: doesnt work

11:46:10 AM workguy: no u have to fix it

11:46:19 AM workguy: this is the most important thing

11:46:29 AM workguy: our whole project relies on it

Umm, excuse me? Who died and made you king of the world? You do NOT talk to your fellow co-workers like this! I have done EVERYTHING in my power to fix the issue. It was NOT my job to TEST the damn thing before it was moved over from the old server to the new one. That was YOUR job, don’t get bitchy at me because you didn’t do YOUR job!

11:46:35 AM me: yes. I realize that. and it was CL’s job to make sure it was working before we moved over

11:46:41 AM me: I have done everything that _I_ can do

11:46:48 AM workguy: just bring the old box back

11:46:50 AM workguy: wtf was wrong with it

11:46:58 AM workguy: it worked and wasnt slow

11:46:59 AM me: Because it’s already been disassembled.

11:47:39 AM workguy: well keep working on it until its fixed…

11:47:43 AM workguy: we have a release coming up

WHAT? You don’t have ANY authority over me to tell me what my priorities are. _I_ too have a deadline coming up. You expect me to just drop everything I’m doing for you? And with that attidute? I think not… Thankfully the manager of the person I’m IMing with then IMed me and gave me a HINT as to what might be wrong (Another application was running at the same time, interfering with their process). I checked and that was the problem…So I had him try again….

11:56:56 AM me: try now

11:57:01 AM workguy: it just worked

11:57:19 AM me: try a couple more times

11:57:40 AM workguy: well u cant just “try”…i have to have something to commit

11:57:47 AM me: clearly

11:57:52 AM me: so do something

11:59:07 AM workguy: it worked

UGH! Ok, you just bitch at me for the last hour about how important this is. We have reports that it works “intermittently”. I ask you to try a couple more times to VERIFY that it’s working and you give me lip? I think not!

Oh, and how about a nice, “Thanks for fixing it”!! UGH!

I am getting really fed up with these idiots lately. The same guys who for the last 20 days have given me nothing but. “I don’t know” and “not sure” every time I ask them for help. I’m moving their servers, they are the ones who set them up. They should know exactly how everything is setup and working. And yet all I can get out of them is crap answers.

Plus they sit right on the other side of the cube from me, I have to hear them all day long talking loudly about shit. One of them just sits there and screams the same thing over and over again until you answer him and if two people are in a conversation and he needs something, he just barges right in. No waiting, no polite, “excuse me”, no nothing. (BTW, the same one this conversation was taken from). He’s like a fucking 2 year old! If he doesn’t get exactly what he wants right NOW he has a temper-tantrum. How about we just give him a nice candy bar and tell him to sit in the corner?

I think I really need a vacation. But I can’t afford the time away from training for lifecycle right now. June 2nd can’t come fast enough, and yet it needs to be farther off!

BTW: Ultimately the issue was the JIRA and Fisheye were running as user ROOT (ls -alR svn/ | grep root). When you update a problem/ticket in one of those two, it updates the SVN root directory. This was then changing the permissions on those files to “root:root”. mod_svn requires that ALL files be the same user as the apache install is running. For this instance that was “apache:apache”. Restarting Jira and Fisheye under the apache user fixed the problem.

Later.

Meet the Robinsons

So about my week, so far it’s been fairly busy with the whole investment thing, but also going out and having a good time.

Monday night I went out with Logan and we saw Meet the Robinsons. Very funny movie. You should all go see it! Although he’s a nice guy, he’s one of those people who I just want to punch in the movie theater. He laughs so loud and at some really not-so-funny things.

Tuesday I worked in Santa Monica and wore a full on suit. I got yelled at least week for not wearing shoes while at my desk. Then Monday one of the VPs came and talked to me to tell me that the CEO of MY company got an e-mail from one of the VPs at PHS about my dress. How annoying.

Went out with Ben, Robert and JaunCarlos to Beige that night. Fucking ran into Mayko. UGH! I thought he’d be gone by now! Anyways, I got really annoyed there last night about things. Lots of hot boys as per usual, so that was nice!

This is pretty funny… ADs vs Reality.

I have officially made it to the minimum needed for LifeCycle! YAY! 🙂 So I booked my tickets today, now to find a hotel room and what not!

Later!

Rapid Fire AIM!

A while back one of the guys I work with wrote an article about “Rapid Fire AIMing” (Also called diarrhea of the fingers. I never really thought about it…. Until yesterday.

I’m working on this project with a guy. We’re in the final stages of testing things for his thing and he was going through everything. There was an issue with the registration and he starts AIMing me.

First off, I was at HOME when this started, secondly, I was trying to cook dinner.

This guy sent me 40 messages in UNDER a minute! 40! Mostly one or two works. Now, sometimes I can be guilty of this, but at least my ideas are FULLY complete before sending a message. I’ll send a lot of messages very quickly, but they are fully completed sentences, etc.

PLEASE, finish the sentence before you press ENTER people or finish the whole thought! I don’t need to know your whole thought process and having 8 million messages to read when I get back just makes it confusing. Plus every time I ran back to the kitchen to stir something or chop something all I would hear is…

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Sooooo annoying!

I eventually just blocked him for the evening. I was so sick of it!

Investment Mess!

OMG. What a mess the last two days have been.

I’m a member of the Profit Sharing here at my company. Back in Dec/05 I got my first payment. That same month, I quickly invested it all into various mutual funds. All three did fairly well. Two better then the others.

I hadn’t touched them since then. I hadn’t even LOGGED into my account with the company that holds them. So much to my surprise I got three letters in the mail yesterday from that company. I open the first one. “We are mailing you to inform you of an action on your account.” All three of them had been SOLD! WTF?!

I immediately go to the person in charge of that at our company and ask what’s going on. He had no idea and said that no one with access to the accounts should have been touching that stuff.

On my drive home, I call up the holding company and start inquiring as to what’s happened with this. They are able to tell me that besides me there are 3 other people who have access to my accounts and can change them!

So here’s the first MAJOR issue… THREE other people! WTF? I understand that they need access to be able to deposit money, but there should be ONE person in charge of this account, not THREE.

I continue talking with them about who could have done this. They tell me that it was done via an online account and that they do not store the username/etc of the person who did the transaction.

Here’ the second major issue.. WHAT? No logs of who performed a transaction. This is ridiculous! If we were to say that in our systems we’d get hit with HUGE fines via HIPAA. They tell me the only way they can get that sort of information is to start a fraud inquiry.

We chat some more and find that not only did this transaction incur a $50 transaction fee. The three funds are UP more then $150 since the date of sale. Which means that I’ve lost out on $200 worth of income from the funds. There’s obviously no way to roll back a transaction, once the sell order is placed, you’ve sold your shares. They won’t rebuy them for me at the sale price because it was an “authorized” transaction. I can’t move the money out of the holding account, because then it becomes taxable income. So basically I’m stuck.

This also raises the question of now do I owe taxes on the capital gains from the sale of these funds? At this point no one is sure. I have to find a good financial adviser to find out! Which will incur more lost money on my account. Plus, I had to spend more transaction fees to reinvest the funds.

The last issue is HOW did this possibly happen? The person who did it says it was an accident and that ALL of the accounts he manages a mixed in with one login, both his personal accounts AND all the accounts of EVERY employee which is in the profit sharing plan. This is a mess! Should I now charge the company for all this lost income? Do I have any recourse against them for letting this happen? UGH!

I reinvested in some of the same funds and chose two additional new ones today. Hopefully they will perform well.

UPDATE:// I’m going to be on the SUZE ORMAN SHOW! Regarding this issue! How fucking exciting is that!!! They call me on Monday to record the call. Not sure when it’ll go on, but I’ll be sure to let you know!!!