Update decathlon
I have been offline for almost a week. No, I didn't have connection problems or anything. I just didn't go online. It felt so weird. But I just didn't feel like it. Between work and home (which I will now refer to as work2) I have been so tired that I don't feel like doing anything.
For those of you who care (right!), my new job is gong well. My boss actually cares about what I think, and he usually ends our little meetings with "put it together however you think is best and show me what you come up with". Sweet. They seem to find my little quirks amusing, as opposed to stupid and annoying. I have a Yoda background and everyone thought it was interesting instead of childish. I suppose that since the network admin has Pooh as her background they can't say anything about mine.
Having people who appreciate they programs I write makes a big difference. I get things like "that works great" and "that's exactly what I needed", which beats "I don't understand this (b/c I am an f*ing moron)" and "it stopped running (b/c I tried to read the file WHILE it was writing it)", and of course "I don't like the way this works (even though I insisted on you doing it this stupid way even though you thought it was dumb to begin with)". The sections in parentheses are what they meant, not what they actually said.
Not getting rushed is really cool too. "It's no hurry", "whenever you get around to it", and "let me know when you've got something to look at" sure beats "we need this today (b/c we told the client we would have it done today and didn't do anything with it for the last 6 weeks)" and "this isn't working and they need it fixed so they can send there files (since I fucked the program up and didn't save the original anywhere)"
The biggest difference is obviously the fact that they want things b/c it makes life easier for them, not because something is really f'd up and it is causing problems (sorry, no humerous quotes for this one). Well, that happens too, but they just find a way to work around it until I can fix it. Also, they don't act like it is my fault when something is f'd up when it is something from before I got there. And if it is my fault (which does happen on occasion) they just ask me to fix it. There seems to be an understanding that programmers are NOT actually God (even though I can understand the confusion), and we do make mistakes. So I don't get the "you f'd up and you are a stupid ass" vibes.
At work2, the current project is replacing the fence around the pool. There is like 160' of fence. We built new fence for like 120', and we are going to salvage what we can to shore up the rest. That involves cutting 2x8s into 3/4" pickets, which is 2 separate cuts, then cutting the tops into pyramids, which means measuring each picket and cutting 4 angled cuts (220 pickets), then putting them onto 2x8 beams, 2 nails per picket per beam (4 total nails per picket) then 3 coats of paint (1 of primer). All that adds up to a lot of f*ing work. Grrr. And we can't even go in the pool b/c we just got a new liner and it isn't done yet. Not to mention the fact that we stole all the water pressure from the house for 2 days to refill the pool.
Pretty good sized post. For all that work I deserve many comments. Please oblige.
For those of you who care (right!), my new job is gong well. My boss actually cares about what I think, and he usually ends our little meetings with "put it together however you think is best and show me what you come up with". Sweet. They seem to find my little quirks amusing, as opposed to stupid and annoying. I have a Yoda background and everyone thought it was interesting instead of childish. I suppose that since the network admin has Pooh as her background they can't say anything about mine.
Having people who appreciate they programs I write makes a big difference. I get things like "that works great" and "that's exactly what I needed", which beats "I don't understand this (b/c I am an f*ing moron)" and "it stopped running (b/c I tried to read the file WHILE it was writing it)", and of course "I don't like the way this works (even though I insisted on you doing it this stupid way even though you thought it was dumb to begin with)". The sections in parentheses are what they meant, not what they actually said.
Not getting rushed is really cool too. "It's no hurry", "whenever you get around to it", and "let me know when you've got something to look at" sure beats "we need this today (b/c we told the client we would have it done today and didn't do anything with it for the last 6 weeks)" and "this isn't working and they need it fixed so they can send there files (since I fucked the program up and didn't save the original anywhere)"
The biggest difference is obviously the fact that they want things b/c it makes life easier for them, not because something is really f'd up and it is causing problems (sorry, no humerous quotes for this one). Well, that happens too, but they just find a way to work around it until I can fix it. Also, they don't act like it is my fault when something is f'd up when it is something from before I got there. And if it is my fault (which does happen on occasion) they just ask me to fix it. There seems to be an understanding that programmers are NOT actually God (even though I can understand the confusion), and we do make mistakes. So I don't get the "you f'd up and you are a stupid ass" vibes.
At work2, the current project is replacing the fence around the pool. There is like 160' of fence. We built new fence for like 120', and we are going to salvage what we can to shore up the rest. That involves cutting 2x8s into 3/4" pickets, which is 2 separate cuts, then cutting the tops into pyramids, which means measuring each picket and cutting 4 angled cuts (220 pickets), then putting them onto 2x8 beams, 2 nails per picket per beam (4 total nails per picket) then 3 coats of paint (1 of primer). All that adds up to a lot of f*ing work. Grrr. And we can't even go in the pool b/c we just got a new liner and it isn't done yet. Not to mention the fact that we stole all the water pressure from the house for 2 days to refill the pool.
Pretty good sized post. For all that work I deserve many comments. Please oblige.