As you may already know, I'm starting Uni on Monday. I'm enrolling on sunday and i'm supposed to fill all these details of some forms for then. These include my weight and height of which i have no idea. Someone get me a scale and a tape measure.
Anyway yesterday was my last 40hour week working for Carphone Warehouse. And a really hectic one at that. People living in the UK may know that the company is moving into the landline market and as such is expanding. It's landline service is TalkTalk.
Now as i mentioned in those times when entries came by more often, I've been employed on a sort of Projects environmet to look at the current processes that the admin team does and find way to cut down on manula entry.
It used to be like, I'd go to work, spend 5hours surfing around. Pick one of my earlier scripts and modify it a bit. Do something clever with it. Get heaps of praise. Blog and gloat about it and get paid as well as have loads of prai heaped on me.
Well now with all this expansion and my being moved to a dedicated Projects team. That means i have to find ompany-wide solutions for manual entry. Basically now i'm having to work for every single penny. The demand for scripts and databases is so high that i've been given a priority system to assign to each new project that is requested
I barely have time to complete one before another one is thrust in my face with a "highest priority tag". Normally I dont like droping things in the middle to go on another project becasue well... i dont take notes. And i forget where i was. The good thing about all the pressure is that it's making me a good programmer. I take notes and make a note of every change i make.
What they havent got out of me though is a good manual writer. I've written a few but i dont like them myself. Anyway... so back to school it is. I was 'laxing about the whole thing until late Friday when i got hit with a bomp. The IT department is making a massive change to the billing backend.
Now before i joined CPW, used to be a manual system for most connections but my scripts have made it possible to push a few buttons thruout the day and get, on average, about 500 customers a day connected. Now when they used to do it manually, people didnt use to hate the job of connecting customers onto the system that much, but thanks to urs truly, no one will be willing to sit down connecting 500 individual accounts.
Not a problem you think? Just modify the script for the new system you think? The mu'fuckas are changing the system over on Monday. Of all days... it had to be my indcution week. I had to spend all day yesterday making sure the processes that couldnt wait have their scripts, templates and macros modified to reflect the new system.
The problem is that i cant test it till the system goes live on Monday. I dont have my timetable yet so i dont even know whether i cna go in on Monday to test the new system before re-leasing the scripts for use.
The only good thing that will come out of all this is that they'll realise how much i'm worth. I hope they wont equate it to "We better not be so reliant on him".
Anyway... just so you guys know, i'm blogging from home. This is the first entry from home i've made in a long time 'cos i cut off my 56k connection over a yr ago and just got broadband installed on the 13th.
Consider me back. Hopefully. Sort of.
Author: abena
Date/Time: September 22, 2003 8:13 PM
Email: ethilda@excite.com
u look high in dat picture
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