Crisis resolved, now for the next one January 23, 2006
Our production problem has been fixed. It was a simple data issue that had an horrendous snowballing effect. Fortunately it should only take a day or so for things to return to normal.
With that done the next matter of dropdead urgency has come to the fore. A deployment into production first thing tomorrow morning to support a product launch, which I only found out about on Friday. The change is still in test and the production support team leader I need to speak to hasn’t returned my calls yet.
This is a large part of what I don’t like about this job. There is no end to this kind of stuff. It’s rush, rush, panic, panic to get something resolved and then rush, rush, panic, panic again.
But it’ll be fine. I’ll make my boss approve my leave for next week and after that I only have 2 or 3 more weeks to go. I’ll be walking like the hunchback of Notre Dame by then, but it’ll be fine.
Hang in there - a week off will be a nice taste of what not being there is like.