bullet with butterfly wings

the chancers are back this week and once again i get tasked with checking their work and once again its incomplete. one of them came over to my desk asking me about Tibco installs and what the engineering standards were for it and just whining. i told him how i had been told to do it by my team leader who has been at the firm 9 years, and knows about how most stuff gets done, and the chancer just questioned it and came up with possible alternative methods, which when you analysed it, would not work, so were not worth discussing.

its one thing to have a discussion about something that might work, but your method goes against the rules set by engineering department, so they can be dismissed. there is no conversation to have here. after gently pointing out a couple of issues with his suggestion, he then said the way i was doing it "would be a sackable offence at barclays capital", and made sure everyone around us heard. 2 things to point out, firstly the way i configure it is the correct way of doing it, and secondly, we don't work for barclays capital so who gives a shit about whats correct there. this is a hedge fund bitch and this is the way we do it, so if you like barclays so much, i suggest you fuck off back to them.

obviously i didnt say that to him. even though i knew i was right, i checked again that the way i was configuring it was right, and it turns out it was. anyways, i carried on installing the rest of the applications on the trading servers he had allegedly finished and were ready to hand over. around 5pm after all the chancers had gone home i bumped into the senior project manager who manages that team and he asked me how the servers were looking. i could have covered for the chancer and said they were fine, but it would then make me look bad because it would then raise the question, why did it take me 3 hours to check 6 servers. i decided to tell the truth, which was those servers were nowhere near being ready to be handed over to the application team, because none of the applications had been installed and so i was going through each server configuring them correctly and fixing issues. i stayed behind an extra hour this evening to get it all done.

why is it that people that are incompetent have no idea they are shit?. i am not that great at what i do, but i miles better than the chancers and yet i don't throw my weight around and make lots of noise and whine about Tibco installs or oracle installs or how messed up the automated build process is. it works fine for me and when it doesn't i try and use my brain a little and figure it out. i dont go round marching to peoples desk hassling them and talking shit.

will be interesting tomorrow. the chancer sent a long email to the head of engineering as well as a dozen other people wanting clarification on how to do a Tibco install. he doesn't know it, but he is making a rather public tit of himself.

this post might make it sound like i am not enjoying work and its becoming a hassle. its the opposite actually. i really am enjoying it these days and all the work i do is being really appreciated by the trading application teams because i am the one that sends them servers built and installed and configured correctly and they think i am a fucking hero, for handing them servers that are a week late because the chancers were fucking around for a week. all is peachy.

today i have mostly been listening to smashing pumpkins - bullet with butterfly wings.