> From: [my boss]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
> To: [me]
> Subject: FW: question
>
> Jay, the award program question has arisen again. I know
> you are busy with [project x] and [project y] work. Do you
> have time to look this over and come by to discuss it?
>
> > From: Liz
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
> > To: [A lot of people, including my boss]
> > Subject: RE: question
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > We’ll need to get some input from our technical team on
> > this one, since it was my understanding that the system
> is
> > set up so that 2005 awards automatically expire on
> December
> > 31, 2006 unless the property is a repeat winner in 2006.
> > Could someone please look into why the 2005 award winners
> > are still displaying award logos on [our].com?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Liz
I fished through my e-mail archive, and dug this out…
> From: Liz
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007
> To: [my boss]
> Cc: [me]; [somebody else]
> Subject: RE: [xxx] Awards Mystery
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> [snip]
>
> If we were to update the business rule for these
> properties, what would the timeline look like for making
> the change (see below)? [snip] I realize this isn’t
> ideal, but it is urgent that we address the issue because
> properties are noticing every time their award logo
> disappears from the site.
>
> The business rules for the 2006 program are:
> [xxx] winners with 2005 dates expire on 12/31/07
> [xxx] winners with 2006 dates expire on 12/31/07
> [yyy] winners with 2005 dates expire on 12/31/07
> [yyy] winners with 2006 dates expire on 12/31/07
> Please let me know how you think it would be best to
> proceed.
>
> Thanks,
> Liz
jdredd5150 | 17-Apr-07 at 1:55 pm | Permalink
I hate that crap. That’s probably a good 2-3 hours of my week, research as to why things are doing what they’re doing, when they’re doing exactly what I was told to make them do in the first place.
mr_mooph | 17-Apr-07 at 2:47 pm | Permalink
And it’s my job to tell you to make it do something different than we had you make it do three months ago.
Aint it a good thing we all work at different companies? :)
nephariuz | 17-Apr-07 at 2:51 pm | Permalink
Ya know, I haven’t been following your employment changes since my move. Are you a business analyst type now?
jdredd5150 | 17-Apr-07 at 5:21 pm | Permalink
yes
if not, we’d be at each other’s throats
mr_mooph | 24-Apr-07 at 1:08 pm | Permalink
My “official” title is Functional Area MIS (Managed Information Systems) Analyst I. For better or for worse, I moved into the position a bit over two years ago.
Basically means I do the lion’s share of the testing on changes they have to make to the system and have to straighten them out when they get business requirements all wrong, because while our little off shore team of indian programmers may know how to code (though I frankly doubt their proficiency at this as well), they don’t know and cannot seem to learn/infer jack about the business.
nephariuz | 24-Apr-07 at 3:27 pm | Permalink
> while our little off shore team of indian programmers may
> know how to code (though I frankly doubt their proficiency
> at this as well), they don’t know and cannot seem to
> learn/infer jack about the business.
Seems about in line with my one experience with Indian developers. Ours *definitely* couldn’t code, though, and that combined with a similar lack of understanding of the business led to a complete refund of everything we paid them for the project. I’m sure a couple heads rolled, too, though hopefully only the guys that told us they could code in Perl. (I’m beginning to think no one in India has ever heard of it, or indeed anything besides Java.)