i'm really burnt out because i put like 30 hours in over the past few days. people are starting to look concerned
More than about 8 - 10 hours a day on any sort of development work gets counterproductive really fast. You'll start creating more bugs than you fix. Get some rest.
work is going okay and has not been crazy for the last 2 weeks, finally some rest!
unfortunately i haven't been able to sleep at all in the last week so i am more tired than i was when i was working 12+ hr days
poo
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So apparently they are trying to figure out how to get 500 boxes from Richmond to DC
First thing I had to explain is that it makes absolutely no sense for me to get the giant fucking rental truck in DC and then drive it to Richmond and then drive it back
Now I need to convince them that buying me a train ticket down makes way more fucking sense than somebody driving me down in the morning and then trying to drive back to DC in rush hour traffic on 95 north
Ori, you think you're being a rockstar and you likely are, but if you don't start dialing back, reigning it in...whatever...you're going to burn out, start making mistakes and go from the guy that was an awesome new hire to the guy that was trying too hard and really just ends up killing himself over nothing.
Don't be that second guy.
"zip, i dunno what it is about you, but there's something very cat-like about your face. i can't really place it. you'd make a good mountain lion." Hail, Satan!Satans Post
Ori, you think you're being a rockstar and you likely are, but if you don't start dialing back, reigning it in...whatever...you're going to burn out, start making mistakes and go from the guy that was an awesome new hire to the guy that was trying too hard and really just ends up killing himself over nothing.
Don't be that second guy.
also you do this enough you set it as the expected standard.
not a good thing.
people respect drive and ambition, but you overkill it and they'll just see a workmule.
Also, when you DO burn out, they will have little pity. Especially if you made them look bad/lazy on the way to your fiery crash. That, and no duh you burned out, you worked too damn much.
the other dude is quite young so i don't think he realized the bind he was putting me in.
No. Stop it. You shouldn't have to stay late because someone else fucked up or mis-worded something being critical, or because they scheduled you less time or scheduled this other guy to start too soon.
If you start making these excuses for the project management this early only you're going to get fucked.
the other dude is quite young so i don't think he realized the bind he was putting me in.
No. Stop it. You shouldn't have to stay late because someone else fucked up or mis-worded something being critical, or because they scheduled you less time or scheduled this other guy to start too soon.
If you start making these excuses for the project management this early only you're going to get fucked.
i think this assumes we're a bigger studio than we are (we don't have any project management or scheduling at all), but yeah. i've put in enough time this week.
the other dude is quite young so i don't think he realized the bind he was putting me in.
No. Stop it. You shouldn't have to stay late because someone else fucked up or mis-worded something being critical, or because they scheduled you less time or scheduled this other guy to start too soon.
If you start making these excuses for the project management this early only you're going to get fucked.
i think this assumes we're a bigger studio than we are (we don't have any project management or scheduling at all), but yeah. i've put in enough time this week.
then you need to be responsible for your own schedule and not getting fucked over by other people.
seriously dude thats too much time for what, your second week? you can't start off badly.
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And if one of my devs or coworkers came and said that they couldn't get anything done because they were waiting on a dependency I'd smack them upside the head. There is always something else you can be working on in. It's not your responsibility to make sure your coworker has his pipeline full.
like, I know you don't want to look like youre not being a team player etc etc..
but if you're not in crunch and everyone else is also there 30 hours, having to do overtime that drains you just makes you look unprepared/unorganized/like someone who doesn't value their time instead.
We got all of our new database routines working in demos yesterday, and the boss approved a roll-out for this morning into live production.
I click the first button on our new interface and what do I get? Error messages! Yay! This button basically moves information from one table to another table and does some checks to see if information might be able to go to a third table to be used later. I figured, well, it says it failed but I might as well check the table anyways to see if there is any data. There were 12 record to move, 11 of them ended up moving even though I got a "load failed" message. And that was way worse than actually having all of them load and just getting a random error message.
Turns out our developer did not realize that a zero and a null value are not the same thing when checked on a table.
You could be wrong, you know? I mean, how sure are you really?
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Sara LynnI can handle myself.Registered Userregular
edited March 2013
Got a call/email back from a job, which is at a cute cupcake bakery, but they happen to be in a pocket of town with the most sparse and annoying bus routes. Had to email back and decline. Even the best bus scenario had me walking 8 blocks/30 minutes. Nope.
If you are an anonymous craigslist listing that says reliable transportation is important, I can only guess that you're in a part of town I can get to easily. I hate anonymous listings for this reason.
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HunterChemist with a heart of AuRegistered Userregular
Is it? 30 hours over a few days? 10 hour days or what?
If 10 hour days are crunch time, then things are OK.
Now 18 hour days plus travelling back and forth between my hotel and a glass plant or one of the company's production facilities...that was hell. Granted I was still OTE then and made $Texas but after three weeks straight with no day off I nearly snapped like a dry twig.
Email from the guy handling our integration for our shipping software. Waiting on one more thing from one of the carriers, then we'll have a prep phonecall between the shipping software people, the 3rd-party integration guys, and us, and then we're ready to go live.
I'm hoping I can have most of my ducks in a row before PAX East so I'm not stressing about it.
You could be wrong, you know? I mean, how sure are you really?
I get the opposite at least a couple times a week.
"Hey, where's the valet?"
"I'm the valet"
"Well, where's the guy who gets our car?"
"That'd be me. I'm the Valet."
"Well, can you get the valet?"
"I'm the valet"
While standing there in a uniform that say's "valet" in bright red letters...
You could be wrong, you know? I mean, how sure are you really?
I get the opposite at least a couple times a week.
"Hey, where's the valet?"
"I'm the valet"
"Well, where's the guy who gets our car?"
"That'd be me. I'm the Valet."
"Well, can you get the valet?"
"I'm the valet"
While standing there in a uniform that say's "valet" in bright red letters...
You could be wrong, you know? I mean, how sure are you really?
"I can't get into the Employee Infocenter! Is it down?"
"No. Looks like you changed your network password the other day. Are you using the new one?"
"But I didn't change my Infocenter password!"
"Yes you did. It is your network password."
"No it isn't."
"Yes. It is. They use the same system."
"No they don't."
"Yes. They do."
"Since when?"
"Forever."
Is it? 30 hours over a few days? 10 hour days or what?
If 10 hour days are crunch time, then things are OK.
Now 18 hour days plus travelling back and forth between my hotel and a glass plant or one of the company's production facilities...that was hell. Granted I was still OTE then and made $Texas but after three weeks straight with no day off I nearly snapped like a dry twig.
Yeah, that sort of experience is miserable. When I've been at trial, we usually have an office in the same hotel we're staying, so all I do for a month or more is roll out of bed (if I wase lucky enough to sleep the night/morning/afternoon before) hop on an elevator down to my office and work for another 16-72 hours.
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More than about 8 - 10 hours a day on any sort of development work gets counterproductive really fast. You'll start creating more bugs than you fix. Get some rest.
Rude.
"I never asked for these augs."
unfortunately i haven't been able to sleep at all in the last week so i am more tired than i was when i was working 12+ hr days
First thing I had to explain is that it makes absolutely no sense for me to get the giant fucking rental truck in DC and then drive it to Richmond and then drive it back
Now I need to convince them that buying me a train ticket down makes way more fucking sense than somebody driving me down in the morning and then trying to drive back to DC in rush hour traffic on 95 north
Don't be that second guy.
also you do this enough you set it as the expected standard.
not a good thing.
people respect drive and ambition, but you overkill it and they'll just see a workmule.
PARKER, YOU'RE FIRED! <-- My comic book podcast! Satan look here!
Until I googled it, I thought you meant
No.
No it is not.
Did you accidentally have a yellow exclamation point above your head? Sometimes I leave mine on and it confuses people.
Secret Satan 2013 Wishlist
Got my shirt ironed, my shoes shined, and my face shaved.
I am going to rock this so hard that they are going to offer me the job on the spot*.
*Most likely in the next week or so.
Nope. He started telling me about the ink in his blood and asked if I had a business card.
No.
No I do not.
wanted to get that done. and billing for it.
Ok that would also be pretty rad
And would not require me to be in NJ
Or maybe he did and did it deliberately.
No. Stop it. You shouldn't have to stay late because someone else fucked up or mis-worded something being critical, or because they scheduled you less time or scheduled this other guy to start too soon.
If you start making these excuses for the project management this early only you're going to get fucked.
i think this assumes we're a bigger studio than we are (we don't have any project management or scheduling at all), but yeah. i've put in enough time this week.
This is not the department you are looking for.
I promise.
then you need to be responsible for your own schedule and not getting fucked over by other people.
seriously dude thats too much time for what, your second week? you can't start off badly.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
but if you're not in crunch and everyone else is also there 30 hours, having to do overtime that drains you just makes you look unprepared/unorganized/like someone who doesn't value their time instead.
I click the first button on our new interface and what do I get? Error messages! Yay! This button basically moves information from one table to another table and does some checks to see if information might be able to go to a third table to be used later. I figured, well, it says it failed but I might as well check the table anyways to see if there is any data. There were 12 record to move, 11 of them ended up moving even though I got a "load failed" message. And that was way worse than actually having all of them load and just getting a random error message.
Turns out our developer did not realize that a zero and a null value are not the same thing when checked on a table.
Yeah but like
You could be wrong, you know? I mean, how sure are you really?
If you are an anonymous craigslist listing that says reliable transportation is important, I can only guess that you're in a part of town I can get to easily. I hate anonymous listings for this reason.
If 10 hour days are crunch time, then things are OK.
Now 18 hour days plus travelling back and forth between my hotel and a glass plant or one of the company's production facilities...that was hell. Granted I was still OTE then and made $Texas but after three weeks straight with no day off I nearly snapped like a dry twig.
Secret Satan 2013 Wishlist
Email from the guy handling our integration for our shipping software. Waiting on one more thing from one of the carriers, then we'll have a prep phonecall between the shipping software people, the 3rd-party integration guys, and us, and then we're ready to go live.
I'm hoping I can have most of my ducks in a row before PAX East so I'm not stressing about it.
I get the opposite at least a couple times a week.
"Hey, where's the valet?"
"I'm the valet"
"Well, where's the guy who gets our car?"
"That'd be me. I'm the Valet."
"Well, can you get the valet?"
"I'm the valet"
While standing there in a uniform that say's "valet" in bright red letters...
Is your name Costello?
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
This is one more thing that'll help get me promoted off the Help Desk.
And it's actually fun setting up new equipment in a set time frame.
"No. Looks like you changed your network password the other day. Are you using the new one?"
"But I didn't change my Infocenter password!"
"Yes you did. It is your network password."
"No it isn't."
"Yes. It is. They use the same system."
"No they don't."
"Yes. They do."
"Since when?"
"Forever."
Highly unpleasant.
Thank you, and come again.