You can't outsmart the Frog

[flexagon]

I thought I was being so very clever, working today. I get points for caring so deeply about my project that I'd come in on a holiday, and in the meantime I get a nice quiet workday with nobody bothering me. Then next week I take an extra day off while everyone's in here making noise, and all is well. Right? Wrong, dipshit, today will be the day the last heater in the office dies and there is a high-priority bug from our biggest customer.

I found the problem and it doesn't seem to really be a bug, so that's all good. The guy who is our primary contact didn't want to believe me that I found it though. Look mister, I may be younger and cuter than you but I can run a SQL query, okay? Just--yes, I am sure. :b I had to get all Carnegie on him and suggest how I would word the reply to the customer so we aren't presenting my analysis as The Final Answer. Well, I just got copied on his reply and it was what I said, almost word for word. SNICKER SNORT.

And now to start the work I came in today to do...

Comments

[webrat.livejournal.com]

get all Carnegie on him - Hehe.. that's funny. :) I bet he had to look up your words in the dictionary. :p Sorry about the heater tho, least you have a heater.

[flexagon]

Well, we don't anymore, and the other one died in late December so I sure hope this one gets faster action. We're 0 for 2 now. :b

And, I bet he didn't. Getting all Carnegie is mostly just about replacing your problem is you have mud in your database with We notice you have mud in your database, which may not be the only answer but would definitely lead to some of the behavior you've been seeing. We think if you change it to stale bread crumbs the problem will go away. If it doesn't we'll keep working. Alternatively, if you meant to have mud in there, we should talk about what behavior you were trying to achieve and how we can really do that without getting muddy.

Of course, they ended up wanting to kill me because it turns out our company sent them the mud years ago and they've never changed it. :(

So solly, assholes, but I'm only the messenger.

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I've got a little electric space heater you can borrow... no exposed filament, so it is perfectly save. Nice job fixing the problem!