Suckers in the salad
It was an uneventful day. The powers that be posted a job on our internal web site that sounded an awful lot like MY job! I immediately went straight to my boss to ask what was going on. He explained that it was actually a mistake and that before they could offer the intern a job they had to make it available to everyone in the company. So ideally the intern will apply for and receive the job. That would be very good. He’s a good guy and I’d like to have him on our team. It was unnerving for a while, though because the qualifications they were asking for could only have been fulfilled by three people in the company — and they were all on the team already!
I’m not sure if you recall, but a couple of months back one of our production systems got broken because I upgraded it. The people who SAID they had tested the upgrade, clearly hadn’t. I had to go and argue with a whole bunch of people about whose fault it was and what was the best method to fix it. One person wanted the programers to fix it. The programers said that SAP changed the interface format, so THEY should be the ones to fix it.
That’s all well and good, but at the end of the day the interface still isn’t working. After a short while I found out that I wasn’t supposed to be supporting that particular system and that I had overstepped my bounds. Whew! I was greatly relieved because I didn’t want to be supporting it in the first place. I backed off.
The new person who had responsibility asked me for an assessment of who should fix the problem. I conceded that since SAP had changed their interface, really the right thing for them to do is to fix it. But I also explained that SAP was very unlikely to do that and that for all their caterwauling the programers would probably be the ones to fix it anyway.
As it came to pass a great brou-ha-ha ensued and yea much pointing of fingers and gnashing of teeth commenced! A configurator siezed control of the issue and was bound and determined to get to the problem. But she couldn’t organize her way out of a paper bag. So there was a great deal of floundering and more pointing of fingers. Another person charged in on the side of the programers and took the issue to SAP and said that they would make SAP change their ways.
That was a couple of months ago.
Today I found out that the programers changed the code to accomodate SAP’s change. And I was SO right. And I am so pleased that I don’t have to do anything with that system any more. its a great relief.
In celebration I ate a spicy tuna roll, gyoza and seeweed salad for supper. It was wonderful. And as cool as Gabriel thought it was, he wouldn’t touch the octopus in the salad. I kept making little roaring noises and chasing him with tentacles.
I’m not really as sophisticated as I appear.
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