Whaddaya Do When All Your Enemies Are Friends?
We would all understand ourselves a lot better if we could somehow separate the influences on our mental state and analyze each one individually. Of course, this is futile even if it were somehow possible.
My recent quiz has been about this week, which has been pretty terrible by any measure. I think it might have been worsened because we’re so so close to coming home. I remember getting pretty irritable before we came home last time. But I know on an objective basis this has been really bad conditions.
The system gurus who designed our new architecture only tested our stuff for one month of activity. Upon the second month closing, a lot of stuff blew up in strange, unique ways. I am the only person locally who has done the research on the root cause and understands how to fix the problem.
I feel like this situation is kind of a hand grenade being tossed around and some people do not want to get close enough to the issue to take any heat.
This is not a computer programming problem or something from my end. People act like it is. This is a process problem with a technical but logical solution. But, the logic I’m applying here is engineering logic, troubleshooting, like you would employ when you fix someone’s computer or something.
The people adept at this activity cannot see how it isn’t obvious, but my observation is that there is another group of people who just don’t follow that thought process. They look at things differently, which is an asset until you get cornered into a pure troubleshooting situation.
As I have said about geometry proofs and programming in general, a troubleshooter sees a problem as a limited world with a finite set of moving parts and tools. You isolate the problem and then look at your toolbox to see what you can throw together. I compared myself to a surgeon yesterday coming out and saying, “I did everything I could do.” In a limited world, you can reach the end of your tools.
I am writing this now because I have dropped an 859 line file into this miserable bulk uploading system we have. If this file goes through I will drop another <100 line file, then we will do some extra processing and I will have thousands of lines to drop, most likely. This should really all get done today.
The file was just picked up. The system is running at 400% the maximum expected lead time. Busy day.
Hopefully something successful will come from this, or I will have bad news to break this evening…