ha - the other side of the coinWhen I worked for the big red X company, they had a ridiculous system whereby project managers entered certain bits of information into Excel, printed it off, then gave it to my team to enter into our processing tool - which I reckoned was a pretty roundabout way of doing it, so I wrote some scripts to pull the stuff out of Excel and run our tool automatically overnight/whenever.
My boss told me I ought to get the systems department to release my scripts (written in Tcl/Tk - we got lumbered with it by some legacy software someone had written years before). So I asked them.
'Oh, you shouldn't be doing that, you don't work in systems'
'No, I know, but I've written it cos the current process is bollocks. I've tested it and it's really not a very complicated process'
'Well, if there's an improvement to be made, our developers will do it'
'Right - do we have any Tcl/Tk developers?'
'No...oh wait, we have one guy in another office'
'Right, can you ask him to look at my code and check it's ok?'
'Ok'
--- 3 months later ---
'He says he's too busy to do it'
Luckily my whole team had been using it anyway, which saved us a lot of time. Moral is, if you want it done, do it yourself, cos no-one else cares.
/ranty geek blog
(My boss told me I ought to get the systems department to release my scripts (written in Tcl/Tk - we got lumbered with it by some legacy software someone had written years before). So I asked them.
'Oh, you shouldn't be doing that, you don't work in systems'
'No, I know, but I've written it cos the current process is bollocks. I've tested it and it's really not a very complicated process'
'Well, if there's an improvement to be made, our developers will do it'
'Right - do we have any Tcl/Tk developers?'
'No...oh wait, we have one guy in another office'
'Right, can you ask him to look at my code and check it's ok?'
'Ok'
--- 3 months later ---
'He says he's too busy to do it'
Luckily my whole team had been using it anyway, which saved us a lot of time. Moral is, if you want it done, do it yourself, cos no-one else cares.
/ranty geek blog
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