Sometimes I guess I just don't understand..[RANT]

[Christopher_Arm]

@Chris - you are not the first at this rodeo. A lot of us have been there, or are there. I'd swap with you in a "heartbeat"

When I posted that famous quotation, I didn't say it was easy. It was meant to point you at some obvious truth's.

I hate my job.
Quit.
I can't quit because of a,b,c.
Ok, don't quit. Change the job
I can't because of a,b,c
Ok, accept it and move along.

When you get my age you will have done this more than once. Quit or accept it, but beating yourself up in a constant emotional loop will make you old quick.

Agreed. And thanks but what chafes me is the b.s of not taking responsibility for the inefficiency. And turning it back to me when I am trying to roll a boulder uphill. It offends me on a professional level and I take my professional reputation seriously.

I mean if you expect me to generate x crystal reports for a user creating a stored procedure wouldn't I need requirements such as the proper database tables or views. Instead of telling I 've been here for two years I should know every server and every database that sits on them production or otherwise. I was hired as a programmer, not as an analyst or as a DBA and even it is perfectly reasonable to be provided with the basic level of information to get the work done without the yelling or the lecturing. If you don't have a database schema that I can reference indicates what views or tables control what reports or web applications all this means is that this will repeat over and over again.

Why am I going over 50 + almost investigating more than 100 tables through trial and error to build what on a basic level could have been provided in the first place ? Why am I being told that instead of cutting and pasting said result set taken from the query analyzer to an excel spreadsheet for quick evaluation by the user when I email it to them that instead I must deliver the stored procedures to a colleague who will sit on it for hour either a) because he has work that is priority or b) because it is not in his self interest or both and so once mapped to the database I must map the fields and parameters to the report and then generate the report and export it to PDF format and then e-mail to the user and if it is incorrect and needs modification based on lack of requirements to start the process all over again.

How logical is that exactly ? Not very logical.

Going from a to z to get to b when from a logical standpoint what I was originally doing made sense going directly from a to b.

Then he wants me to speak less to the client/user by phone and correspond only through e-mails when largely the bulk of my progress was done using both that way the user point of contact and I bounced ideas off one another and results were turned around faster. Again there is a disconnect in terms of procedure and it would seem my ability to get the work done is being diminshed by the very manager that is supposed to help make sure it gets implemented. And this is what had turned one or two weeks worth of work in three months worth of work and back and forth.

And it is because of similar scenarios like this with web applications as well and other scenarios which he believed justified his writing me up. He dodges the accountability of his position and frankly he never should have been promoted to manager. But that is moot because regardless of what I think should be, he occupies that position and will be there after I am gone.

Do you know I have never been written up in any job I have ever held as a programmer, consultant in 10 years of programming ? My work ethic is strong and I bust my tail in my efforts at times where it is called for during crunch time because that is what is necessary in a crisis.

I will normally stay until 8pm at night until 2 am the morning for a job to get it done. While my antagonist is home in bed or relaxing or doing whatever. And this is from a 9am - 5 pm job .And even then I work smart not just hard. I look for the most efficient alternative with the quickest turnaround that gets the results that are mandated to received. So I am ticked at the injustice of it all. That poor management trumps and wins out against hard work yet again. And that my family is now in the cross hairs with me this time.

My initial requests for web applications when I started at the company were verbal with five sentence bullet point emails on average with very little specifications, always subject to change when the manager visited my cubicle.

I would have to modify code of application five times over because it didn't meet his vision and then I would get berated because each time I had to make modifications it wasn't fast enough for him based on the original timeline set. If extensive changes are required in functionality of an application doesn't the timeline need to be reassessed ? How can you use that as a basis for saying my .NET skills need to improve especially when the comment isn't qualified or specific comments about specific projects are not appended to that assessment.

[Max Peck]

Agreed. And thanks but what chafes me is the b.s of not taking responsibility for the inefficiency. And turning it back to me when I am trying to roll a boulder uphill. It offends me on a professional level and I take my professional reputation seriously...

Get out of there ASAP. I've seen (and been in) some pretty disfunctional shops before but what you describe is complete mahem. As was said earlier, don't worry about a "dream" job, just find something else before you go completely nuts.

-Max

[Christopher_Arm]

Get out of there ASAP. I've seen (and been in) some pretty disfunctional shops before but what you describe is complete mahem. As was said earlier, don't worry about a "dream" job, just find something else before you go completely nuts.

-Max

Oh good god....yes I intend to hopefully, the powers that be willing.