On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Andrew Konkol <akon...@gmail.com> wrote: > > since when does fortune _ _ _ _ _ have policy?
Now now, I didn't say they were good policies. There's this wonderful story I like to tell about my last place. You may have heard me ranting about the NotWork Engineer there. But, this is a story about their change management policies. We had a work at home project, and the VP told me to do testing in a way that doesn't affect production. The said NotWork Engineer bought a 100mb line that was doing *NOTHING* and had been doing nothing for 6 months. Literally, bits were falling off the RJ45 onto the floor. So I told the VP we can use that. The fucking fucker came up with a "top secret emergency CIO project that needs to use the 100mb line". We currently have two BGP'ed 10mb line for redundancy. Hold up pointer and middle finger, and twist them together. I showed that to the change management folks. Told them that's current state. Stuck thumb out, and told them that was the 100mb line. Told them that the NotWork guy wanted to break the 2 10mb line. Untwist fingers. 3 fingers are up right now. Told them that NotWork guy wanted to give one 10mb line to me for testing. Fold pointer finger down. Told them Notwork guy wanted to use BGP to bond the 10mb (middle finger) and 100mb (thumb). Told them he doesn't understand BGP and have no hope in hell of making any of that work. Therefore, the 100mb line won't be used. Fold thumb away. Waved Figure 1 in their collective faces. Asked them if they understood what that means if they allow the change to go through. They allowed the change to go through. I was right - the 100mb line continued to stay unused. In their defense, the NotWork guy must have had photos of the CIO - he doesn't do any work, and have caused a lot of outages (who the fuck designs a 10/8 network?) and I once saw the CIO apologizing to him after making a business decision he didnt like. For over 15 minutes. "I want you to understand that it was nothing personal, blah blah blah" Now that the bile has gone down some, I love telling this story, with the accompanying finger gestures. > Seriously, production is a joke. So, yes, a lot of times. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
