The Power
I like my new job even more now.
There is one thing that really get’s my goat, and it’s people who waste time and resource refusing to code their programs correctly.
We have had problems with our systems the last few months, after an ‘upgrade’ to improve efficiency. It didn’t work. The techie guys can’t figure it out. But I know they are spending hours trying to figure it out (hell, that’s what they like to do, prove some other techie wrong somehow, prove that they could do a better job with their eyes closed!)
But the last few days the system has pretty much ground to a halt.
So, I now have access to check who is running what code. And how many sessions they have open.
I don’t quite have total power - the techie guys won’t give me access to kill any jobs I think are taking too much space/inefficiently written/someone has too many sessions open - but I do have the power to ring up said abusers and ask them to choose which sessions they want to kill, else I will pass their names to the techie guys who will kill all their jobs.
I am so enjoying it.
However, I would much rather people wrote efficient code. It’s not that hard to do. And I am responsible for signing off access to the data. I am seriously considering taking it away from some people until they have had some training. The form asks if they have experience, and access is only supposed to be given to ‘intermediate’ users. However it is completely clear that some of these people have never coded in their life, and are just copying and amending bad code to start with.