Tuesday, September 27, 2005

You have to be a true computer geek to understand the exhilarating joy of catching a bug, especially when the bugger bugged you for two weeks at least, making your confidence plummet while you silently swear at the Quality Assurance smirky guy and imagine hundreds ways to end his misery. In his eyes it's all your fault, you screwed it up, it's because of you the company is not in Fortune 500 and he's not getting his bonus this year. As every year, in fact.
But the beauty is 10-fold when you realise the bug was not in your code, but in some old dusty component that everyone forgot it existed. Then you afford to relax and in your infinite generosity you even start to explain to everyone the problem, how you found it and what a genius you are, without actually spelling the word for them. Avoiding the finger pointing is your ultimate virtue. No doubt you're a modern Jesus and this is the tuesday of your ressurection!
Yes, that is my tuesday folks!

2 Comments:

At Tuesday, September 27, 2005 5:29:00 pm, Blogger Carmen said...

Ah, I can see you marching covered with glory...Cezar! Cezar!...:)

 
At Wednesday, September 28, 2005 10:50:00 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Re the bonus - you guys aren't profitable either?
At least our fuck up here in the UK is backed up with half a billion EUR sitting in Germany... I wonder for how much longer... time to find something new :-)

 

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