Not one of my best days
Remember last week when I mentioned some 15 jobs I had to unschedule and remove from our system (There were actually over 30 jobs)? Well, the minor glitches from that have been plauging us all week. All fixable, but nagging reminders of how I messed things up.
This morning, I took up a request for a job impacting that same batch cycle, and my boss came out of his office with a dozen questions: "Is this job supposed to run on the weekend?", "Why didn't it run last weekend?", "Where did these dependencies come from?", "Is the job she's requested supposed to run tonight, running into Saturday, or is it supposed to start Saturday night and run into Sunday morning? (The request was worded, "Run on Saturday") We had to call the person making the request to get it clarified.
The real nail in the coffin was when he growled to one of the senior schedulers, "This is the third time this week I've had to ask about this kind of shit. I want EVERYTHING he does checked." Now, I can deal with being wrong, and I like think I owe up to my mistakes. What I have problems dealing with is feeling STUPID on top of being wrong. I had proven that my work was unreliable and slip-shod; I will have to work to regain my boss' trust. While it was proven that my set-up for the request was done correctly, my confidence was shaken. It didn't help matters when, later, I self-corrected a request I had submitted earlier in the day.
It wasn't all Doom & Gloom. I FINALLY have a date set up to sign the contract with the roofer, which means I'll have a date for the roof repair, and gas prices fell again to $2.39 / gal.
This morning, I took up a request for a job impacting that same batch cycle, and my boss came out of his office with a dozen questions: "Is this job supposed to run on the weekend?", "Why didn't it run last weekend?", "Where did these dependencies come from?", "Is the job she's requested supposed to run tonight, running into Saturday, or is it supposed to start Saturday night and run into Sunday morning? (The request was worded, "Run on Saturday") We had to call the person making the request to get it clarified.
The real nail in the coffin was when he growled to one of the senior schedulers, "This is the third time this week I've had to ask about this kind of shit. I want EVERYTHING he does checked." Now, I can deal with being wrong, and I like think I owe up to my mistakes. What I have problems dealing with is feeling STUPID on top of being wrong. I had proven that my work was unreliable and slip-shod; I will have to work to regain my boss' trust. While it was proven that my set-up for the request was done correctly, my confidence was shaken. It didn't help matters when, later, I self-corrected a request I had submitted earlier in the day.
It wasn't all Doom & Gloom. I FINALLY have a date set up to sign the contract with the roofer, which means I'll have a date for the roof repair, and gas prices fell again to $2.39 / gal.