Organizations commonly become short-sighted. They become so worried about increasing profits this quarter that they really stop caring about the distant future.
You can thank Wall Street for that - analysts, fund managers, and frequent traders only care about the numbers this quarter's 10Q filing, so the company only focuses on meeting or exceeding the projections.
Being the 'new guy,' I get stuck with much of the weekend and after-hours grunt work when we inevitably miss deadlines or produce poor code.
As you're also a recent graduate, I'm guessing that you're also single or at most have a girlfriend you're not living with, and have no kids. Probably very few other family obligations too.
I've been there. Got shat on endlessly. Everyone else takes advantage of your situation, saying "I can't work that weekend/late tonight, I have to do something with my kids" or something like that. You're stuck on-call every week, working late 3 days a week, working every Sunday, all because everyone sees your non-work life as less important because you don't have a spouse or kids.
You need to put a stop to it. Don't refuse every time you're asked, but at least once a month if you're asked to work a weekend, you need to say no. Tell them you're going away skiing for the weekend with friends. You have to go visit your ailing grandmother. Even if it's not true. They tell you someone has to stay late on Wednesday? "Sorry, that's my dinner/poker night with the guys."
If a disproportionate amount of the after-hours/weekend work is falling on your shoulders, go to your supervisor. Being a team player is important - being a doormat is dangerous.
Don't forget that after you've taken that whole flight, you're still left bumming rides or renting a car at your destination. Add another $40/day to the cost of your trip if you rent.
Drive, tack on an extra day or two on one end of the trip or the other, make it a sightseeing vacation while you're at it. Niagara Falls is a nice little detour.
Add in a UPS to power the cable modem, and VOIP hub and you have the same as you do now. At least from grandma's point of view.
Last I knew, the UPS that Time Warner gives you with your VOIP equipment only lasts about 8 hours. The last power outage my parents had was three days. And they're not in a rural area - 800-house subdivision, less than 30 minutes from the state capitol.
It may be the minimum required to operate a department, depending upon the business's needs.
The manager should be managing, not down in the trenches (I've seen managers who are plenty capable of doing the technical side - but if they're trying to balance both, one side or the other is going to get less attention and they will fall behind).
You can't have only a single tech, because eventually he needs to take a vacation or is going to get sick.
If you require support beyond a standard workday, you can't have one tech working 12 hour shifts or 6-7 day weeks constantly.
Splosky worked on Excel in the early days. That's hardly an insignificant application.
I'm not defending him - I think he's full of shit myself. I used to read his blog & years ago, he actually did make sense. Now I find him less than useless. And I agree with most ofyour assessment of Fogbugz (haven't used it myself tho). But at least get your facts straight about what he has and hasn't worked on.
If I were you I'd report the developers of that code to who ever you need to in order for it to be fixed.
That's 4iedBandit's manager's job. It should go something like this:
4iedBandit's manager to both the developers' manager(s) & QA manager, CC the next person up the food chain: Because your people fell asleep at the switch, 4iedBandit & I had to stay after hours to install a crapload of servers to make up for your sloppy work just to get performance back to where it's supposed to be. The hardware & licensing costs for those servers, his OT pay and the food I bought him is coming out of your budgets.
Other managers to their people: WTF is wrong with you people?
Other managers to 4iedBandit & his manager: We apologize for what happened and we will be personally taking measures to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Psychologically it helped to know that he also missed playing with his kids and putting them to bed that night. Sometimes inspiring your employees is as simple as demonstrating that you share their pain, even if you can't share the workload.
Maybe it's just because my own kids are so young, but I think I would have told my manager "go home, put the kids to bed, then come back with food for me." I hate missing bedtime.
Plus it'd give a couple hours of quiet time at the office.
It's been 9 years so I'm a little hazy, but IIRC he did say something about it being one of the first public showings of the technology. He definitely talked about the code-behind & compiled pages when pointing out the differences from Classic (but at the time contemporary) ASP.
I don't recall if the whole.NET stack came up in the presentation or not.
The error pages haven't changed in appearance very much since that preview.
Does this also happen with other public health care systems or is this mostly limited to Medicare in the US?
Don't most public healthcare systems take care of everyone regardless of socioeconomic status?
With poor patients on Medicare in the US, the physician has an economic incentive to get the patient out the door as quickly as possible. Under an all-encompassing public health care system, there'd be no difference between the poor and middle/upper-class patient.
In that case, however, he was being asked to work below minimum wage, off the books (he couldn't have made minimum on the books anyway). That's wrong whether it's an internship or not, and goes beyond "internships are similar to slave labor".
Any company that wants to do that to you doesn't deserve you. And should be reported to the state & IRS - if they're willing to jack an intern out of $4/hour and the associated bookkeeping, they're probably dirty elsewhere.
Not chasing half-second nipslips because 4 uptight housewives in Idaho get snippy about their kids seeing something they don't want them to see, after they're supposed to be in bed and asleep already.
Not to be argumentative, but as one of the "managed", I just don't see what the fuss is all about.. We still have problems, but now many of the problems are global over the network.
You don't see what the fuss is all about because when it's working right, you as an end-user don't really know it's there at all.
Average people don't even realize that AD exists on their corporate PCs, nor that it's how corporate IT manages thousands of systems with only a handful of admins.
Who said anything about the updates being automatic and direct from Microsoft?
You disable workstations & servers on your network from pinging Microsoft Update directly, instead checking a local WSUS server or getting a push via Active Directory. When patches are released by MS, you check them out in a test lab, and if everything passes, you deploy them to your network via AD or WSUS.
When you have it all set up properly, it really is pretty impressive how well you can manage systems w/ AD and other tools MS provides with very little administrative overhead.
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You can thank Wall Street for that - analysts, fund managers, and frequent traders only care about the numbers this quarter's 10Q filing, so the company only focuses on meeting or exceeding the projections.
As you're also a recent graduate, I'm guessing that you're also single or at most have a girlfriend you're not living with, and have no kids. Probably very few other family obligations too.
I've been there. Got shat on endlessly. Everyone else takes advantage of your situation, saying "I can't work that weekend/late tonight, I have to do something with my kids" or something like that. You're stuck on-call every week, working late 3 days a week, working every Sunday, all because everyone sees your non-work life as less important because you don't have a spouse or kids.
You need to put a stop to it. Don't refuse every time you're asked, but at least once a month if you're asked to work a weekend, you need to say no. Tell them you're going away skiing for the weekend with friends. You have to go visit your ailing grandmother. Even if it's not true. They tell you someone has to stay late on Wednesday? "Sorry, that's my dinner/poker night with the guys."
If a disproportionate amount of the after-hours/weekend work is falling on your shoulders, go to your supervisor. Being a team player is important - being a doormat is dangerous.
Manhattan is an island too.
Don't forget that after you've taken that whole flight, you're still left bumming rides or renting a car at your destination. Add another $40/day to the cost of your trip if you rent.
Drive, tack on an extra day or two on one end of the trip or the other, make it a sightseeing vacation while you're at it. Niagara Falls is a nice little detour.
Last I knew, the UPS that Time Warner gives you with your VOIP equipment only lasts about 8 hours. The last power outage my parents had was three days. And they're not in a rural area - 800-house subdivision, less than 30 minutes from the state capitol.
Lots of placebos have been shown to be nearly as effective at treating depression too.
It may be the minimum required to operate a department, depending upon the business's needs.
Unacceptable? Shouldn't that be illegal? They've seized control of you server without your authorization.
Splosky worked on Excel in the early days. That's hardly an insignificant application.
I'm not defending him - I think he's full of shit myself. I used to read his blog & years ago, he actually did make sense. Now I find him less than useless. And I agree with most ofyour assessment of Fogbugz (haven't used it myself tho). But at least get your facts straight about what he has and hasn't worked on.
That's 4iedBandit's manager's job. It should go something like this:
4iedBandit's manager to both the developers' manager(s) & QA manager, CC the next person up the food chain: Because your people fell asleep at the switch, 4iedBandit & I had to stay after hours to install a crapload of servers to make up for your sloppy work just to get performance back to where it's supposed to be. The hardware & licensing costs for those servers, his OT pay and the food I bought him is coming out of your budgets.
Other managers to their people: WTF is wrong with you people?
Other managers to 4iedBandit & his manager: We apologize for what happened and we will be personally taking measures to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Maybe it's just because my own kids are so young, but I think I would have told my manager "go home, put the kids to bed, then come back with food for me." I hate missing bedtime.
Plus it'd give a couple hours of quiet time at the office.
It's been 9 years so I'm a little hazy, but IIRC he did say something about it being one of the first public showings of the technology. He definitely talked about the code-behind & compiled pages when pointing out the differences from Classic (but at the time contemporary) ASP.
I don't recall if the whole .NET stack came up in the presentation or not.
The error pages haven't changed in appearance very much since that preview.
I was at an ASP developer's conference in Vegas in April 2000 where ScottGu previewed ASP+, which became ASP.NET.
DRM is a distribution problem. It's implemented with a technical solution, but DRM's intention is to restrict/control distribution.
OK, fess up - who performed the service? Futurama is coming back.
Don't most public healthcare systems take care of everyone regardless of socioeconomic status?
With poor patients on Medicare in the US, the physician has an economic incentive to get the patient out the door as quickly as possible. Under an all-encompassing public health care system, there'd be no difference between the poor and middle/upper-class patient.
In that case, however, he was being asked to work below minimum wage, off the books (he couldn't have made minimum on the books anyway). That's wrong whether it's an internship or not, and goes beyond "internships are similar to slave labor".
Any company that wants to do that to you doesn't deserve you. And should be reported to the state & IRS - if they're willing to jack an intern out of $4/hour and the associated bookkeeping, they're probably dirty elsewhere.
In New York State, it is legal for women to walk around topless in public. Are you saying that this law should be stricken from the books?
This is what the FCC is supposed to be doing.
Not chasing half-second nipslips because 4 uptight housewives in Idaho get snippy about their kids seeing something they don't want them to see, after they're supposed to be in bed and asleep already.
Is there any other flavor of powdered Tang?
I'd wager that over 50% of the people inside the theater were in possession of a "recording device". Why weren't they arrested & charged too?
You don't see what the fuss is all about because when it's working right, you as an end-user don't really know it's there at all.
It also allows you to control most aspects of a PC's (or user's) configuration via GPO - security especially.
That Firefox is not easily (if at all) manageable via AD is one of the things holding it back from being accepted in more corporate environments.
What you describe is more akin to SMS and WSUS. AD can assume most or all of that functionality, and then some.
Average people don't even realize that AD exists on their corporate PCs, nor that it's how corporate IT manages thousands of systems with only a handful of admins.
Who said anything about the updates being automatic and direct from Microsoft?
You disable workstations & servers on your network from pinging Microsoft Update directly, instead checking a local WSUS server or getting a push via Active Directory. When patches are released by MS, you check them out in a test lab, and if everything passes, you deploy them to your network via AD or WSUS.
When you have it all set up properly, it really is pretty impressive how well you can manage systems w/ AD and other tools MS provides with very little administrative overhead.