*cry*

[billyskank]

So at work they asked me to implement a web service, although two months ago I didn't even know what "web service" means, but somehow I figured something out and cobbled something together with Apache Tomcat, and the security guy said this was a sensible idea but then it turns out that the networks guy is too clueless to be able to install Tomcat on Solaris and we can't get any support because we're using Solaris on a free licence, so I've got to rewrite my web service using the Sun Java System application server which is a great big honking beast of a program and it slows my machine down to a painful crawl, but my requests for more RAM will go ignored because it takes ages to get anything in this place, and I can't manage to get the Sun application server to talk to the database anyway, and the networks guy keeps asking me stuff about the application server and the Java installation even though I know NOTHING about Solaris because I'M A FREAKING DEVELOPER NOT A SYSADMIN, but anyway while I wait for him to set this thing up I have something else to do which involves me having to understand a 4,000 line program written in a language so brain-damagingly awful it makes COBOL look elegant and the only way I can access the source code is by printing it out on fanfold paper - all 60 pages of it - and I'll only get the requirements out of the users one drip at a time because we don't have business analysts and they make the developers manage their projects even though we have no authority to get other people to do stuff and we don't have any source code control system because they don't believe in it and basically I HAVE TO GET A BETTER JOB THAN THIS!!!

:cry:

:rant:

[matcom]

1. i'm sorry Billy. All i can offer you is a

.

:D

[billyskank]

9. A period and a grin?

:shrug:

[matcom]

21. a period for your rant

actually, looks like you could use several

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[billyskank]

23. I admit the punctuation has room for improvement

:D

[miss_american_pie]

2. Sweetie, that was all Greek to me

but because it sounds like you need to be cheered up... a new boot pic and a :hug:

[billyskank]

13. The executive summary is: AAAAAAARGH!

But those are terribly lovely legs, and the boots are AWESOME. :thumbsup:

:loveya:

[miss_american_pie]

27. Thank you

:loveya:

[ZombieNixon]

3. Oy...I had to read that four times to make sense out of it

And I'm a :P

[billyskank]

14. I didn't actually write it with readability in mind

I was trying to express a feeling more than specific information. :hi:

[ZombieNixon]

25. Though I can totally empathize with "I'm a developer not a sysadmin"

x(

:pals:

[Crazy Dave]

4. Yikes!

Sounds like diffusing a bomb while blindfolded would be a welcome change from that nightmare.

[billyskank]

15. I've had better jobs

No doubt about it.

[ThomCat]

5. Yes, you have to get a better job.

It sounds like that one will suck your life out of you and leave you a wasted, withered, frustrated shell.

Please, please, please find a better place to work. :hug:

[billyskank]

16. You're right.

I can see the people who HAVE worked here a long time. :scared:

:hug:

[Richardo]

6. Nerdiest rant ever.

:patriot:






:hug: billy.

[billyskank]

17. You can always rely on me

:D

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. ...

:hug:

[billyskank]

18. ...

:hug:

[LSK]

8. Linux????

Im technically a developer too but I do everything under the sun here. I have written programs, debug a brazilian more programs, debugged servers, setup servers, backups, etc etc etc.

You are better off learning new things and expanding. Thats how you stay employed in IT.

So did you write the webservice in Java?

PS if you think you've got problems, I was at work all day yesterday because we were upgrading our main database and the fixes that worked on the test database didnt work on the live system and we had to make work arounds with some stored procedures at 9pm last night.

[billyskank]

19. Learning new stuff is cool

I had to learn Java in order to do this, and I'm very grateful for THAT. I also learned stuff about Tomcat and Apache Axis, which I'm sure will be useful.

It's just that I'm surrounded by incompetents and the whole place is dysfunctional, which together made me need to SCREAM.

[LSK]

26. what do you normally develop in?

You could have done the web service in dot.net also.

[billyskank]

29. Here, Oracle PL/SQL and Forms

It's seriously unexciting. At my previous job I wrote lots of C, which I liked much better, but very little opportunity for that here. I know nothing of Microsoft stuff - I use Windows at work because I am forced to, but deep down I only really like Unix.

[LSK]

33. i use to be anti-microshaft/linux lover

But that was years ago and have since not cared so much about it anymore. They use Microshaft servers at my work and I guess I have just accepted that if I want job security, its pretty good to be a Microshaft programmer.

I do still have linux servers at home and linux serves as my firewall and fileservers.

[billyskank]

35. Don't get me wrong

if they said, "write xyz using Visual Studio .Net" then I'd do it without a word of complaint. They pay me to program and I'll write whatever they want in whatever they want. My appreciation for it or lack thereof is not an issue.

[LSK]

38. thats cool

I used to know some people who hated Microshaft religiously, but I can take it or leave it.

C# and Java are very very similar.

[Haole Girl]

10. Considering I had to ask my husband what browser we have...

I'll just offer you a hug..:hug:

[billyskank]

20. Warmly received

Thanks. :hug:

[usedtobesick]

11. do they pay you even remotely well for this pleasure?

cause when my job sucks I just remember I get to leave it and go spend the money they pay me to waste my time. Not much in the way of job satisfaction but feels like I just got away with something... "they just paid me what to let me do what?" sad I know, but it gets me thru the bad weeks and months.

[billyskank]

22. Remotely well, yes

I suppose I do okay. Not wealthy, but I'm never skint either.

[BarenakedLady]

12. awww

I have no idea what you just said but here have one of these :hug:

:loveya:

[billyskank]

24. Thank you

:hug:

:loveya: too. :D

[MissHoneychurch]

28. WOW

that is one hell of a sentence!!! I give you a lot of :thumbsup: for writing it in a way that we can understand it :D


Oh and :hug: for a sucky day :hug:

:loveya:

[billyskank]

30. Believe me, it's the only thing I accomplished today

:D

:hug: :loveya:

[mainegreen]

31. I see your problem.

Your using java!

:P

Poking nerdy fun at java because I'm a PHP nazi

[billyskank]

32. I'd write it in FORTRAN if I could

:D

[MissHoneychurch]

34. I always thought

it is a German thing to write a sentence as long as a page. Didn't Mark Twain made fun of that in one of his books? :D

[ZombieNixon]

36. No, the German thing is to

write a WORD as long as a page. :P

[MissHoneychurch]

37. That too

:rofl:

Lastkraftwagenanhängerkupplung :P

[ZombieNixon]

41. Truck follower coupling?

:shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

42. Truck trailer coupler

or something like that :D

[ZombieNixon]

43. A-ha...

How do you day "crazy random-word maker?" :P

[MissHoneychurch]

44. Verrückter Zufallsworterfinder?

:shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

45. Oh, how dissapointing.

I'd hoped that "verrückter" would have been stuck to the rest of the word. :(

[MissHoneychurch]

46. Tschuldigung

:)

[ZombieNixon]

47. I have no idea what that means...

:shrug:

[MissHoneychurch]

48. short for Entschuldigung

which means sorry :hug:

[billyskank]

39. You also make very long words

We used to poke fun at the former Labour Party leader, Neil Kinnock, because he had a habit of speaking in very long sentences. People said it was a good job he wasn't German, because if he was talking past tense we would have to wait half an hour just to discover what he was talking about.

:D

[MissHoneychurch]

40. LOL

I love the Plusquamperfekt :D

[AirmensMom]

49. Aw, billy ...

You need a :hug:

I sure do understand your frustration. :(

[billyskank]

50. Thank you

:hug:


:loveya:

[NewWaveChick1981]

51. Awww, sweetie, I know your pain.

:hug: :* I hope you can find a job that will treat you better.

[billyskank]

52. Thanks, beautiful

:hug:


:* :loveya:

[fizzgig]

53. hugs honey

:hug:

[billyskank]

54. Thanks babe!

:hug:

:loveya:

[fizzgig]

56. and you really shouldn't use all that fancy

technical talk with this girl...she gets a litte :blush:

[billyskank]

58. I do apologise

The basic gist is that nothing works. :D

:hug:

[buddhamama]

55. ...

sweetie, since i don't have a clue as to anything you just wrote all i can do is empathize over your frustration and send love and hugs your way. :hug: :loveya: :pals: :hug: :loveya: :hug:

[billyskank]

57. Thank you

:loveya:

:hug: :hug:

:*

[CaliforniaPeggy]

59. My dear billy!

Omigod, how dare they treat you like this?

I am outraged at them........and feel so bad for you, sweetie.....


These are all for you: :loveya: :hug: :loveya:

I hope that you can find a newer, better job very soon!

[billyskank]

62. Hey Peggy!

It does not feel as bad as this every day - today was a bad one. :hug:

[ContraBass Black]

60. Maybe I should ignore my Computer Science major and do something

With my Professional Writing minor.

[billyskank]

61. Not every programming job is this annoying

Of my four jobs so far, only two of my employers have been this clueless, and to be fair the first was a tiny mom 'n' pop outfit (and I was too green to know any better so it didn't bother me then).