ericbomb

ericbomb OP , vor 8 Tagen

There's always next weeks call deflection meeting for me to try again!

I haven't been uninvited from it yet! But yeah gotta love these "problem solving" meetings from management, where they don't actually want to give any resources or allow any policy changes to come from them.

ericbomb OP , vor 8 Tagen

sigh

So I work for a large enterprise type software with a database. And because our installer is trash, we don't trust clients to do it. It's very common for the installer to error out with SQL error messages and we have to go fix things in the database. Think stupid things like if a value is null in one field, installer crashes.

So they call in, get paperwork for a test upgrade (we require they upgrade a test database first), then after they email that paperwork and it's approved by management, the call to schedule the test appointment happens. Then 3 days before the actual appointment, we can call them and transfer via Bomgar the files they need. Because we don't wanna give them the needed files early for... reasons never explained properly to me.

Then the actual install/upgrade call happens.

Then we do it all over again for the live.

Welcome to corporate policy that's been building over 20 years, and never cut back. Things get added to the install process, never removed.

ericbomb OP , vor 8 Tagen

Heh, yeah but my metrics don't care about how many trucks I roll! Just how long my calls are!
"Modem restart didn't work? Truck will be on its way."
"Modem restart didn't work? Truck will be on its way." X100

100 calls an hour BABY.

ericbomb OP , vor 7 Tagen

Well for the same reason lots of not great software is used.

It was once the best (or only) in the market, and now it'd cost literally millions of dollars to change in training/conversion/hardware changes. As long as we keep above the "We cause less damage than a change costs" folks stay.

ericbomb OP , vor 6 Tagen

Well I did say "for same reason lots" XD so yeah, basically.

Then sales reps can rope in new people with "It's industry standard! It's easy to hire people who know this!"

ericbomb , vor 2 Monaten

Except... if you said you were throwing paper, they would think you were trying to bait them into going scissors so you could go rock.

So wouldn't they themselves go paper? Why would they go rock?

ericbomb , vor 2 Monaten

Dang it, I feel like this could be a really stupid study. Do this to hundreds of people and record the average response.

ericbomb , vor 4 Monaten

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Baby sitting my mom's dog and that's my cat! He wants that spot.