Remember, it could always be worse...

[shirenomad]

We could be developers.

(This season, remind your dev brothers and sisters that they are not alone.)

Comments

[asim.livejournal.com]

As a dev->help desk->dev->sysadmin->dev guy, I appreciate the support. :)

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

I have several friends who know that pain...

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

Oh jesus I relate. I RELATE.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

Wow that rings a bell here. Now if they had one slide where they said, well it has been six months, we still have a target date, adding more deliverables but we cut your budget by half.... then that would be my world.

[hyuga.livejournal.com]

I generally think you guys seem to have it worse, but sometimes it ain't easy being a....developer.

wow, this turned into a rant right quick...

[jecook]

Oh hell, I relate, and I'm not a developer.

"Hi, welcome to your new job from being promoted! You have *two weeks* two perform a full on asset audit of every single computer, laptop, Point of sale system, and printer in the entire company, which all had to be done the 'old fashioned way' (i.e. go around and touch every. single. freeping. machine.), AND schedule a months worth of preventative maintenance, AND refresh a bunch of printers we just bought (half of which don't really need it, due to an oversight on Boss just buying the damn things and not actually looking at the usage figures), AND we are going to toss you a project to implement this shiny new asset tracker module for our ticket tracking system (which appears to have been a "bolt on and call a coder" type of module, as you have to do a bit of programming work in order to get data to flow between the two modules) AND figure out how to get said module to automate those PMs we just tossed at you.

Oh, by the way, we don't have a desk for you, because we took that space to expand the server room, so you still have to share a desk with one of the other guys that do the job we promoted you from. Oh, and we are also going to randomly bug the shit out of you with 'escalations' that need to be done ASAP, because either the tech assigned to do them gave up, was just being über-lazy, or the ticket's been bounced around more times then a superball on acid in a 10 gallon aquarium."

That was my first two months. I've learned how to tell me boss to shove project up his ass sideways in a diplomatic manner, at least.

[canray.livejournal.com]

Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!

[bamatone.livejournal.com]

You beat me to it!

[jerith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the hugs. After debugging a live system until much too late, I needed them. :-/

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Word...
getting an internal help desk job was less stressful!

[ghostdandp.livejournal.com]

I was talking to my boss about this a few weeks ago, we figured out that the people who lasted the longest in the helpdesk and tended to bitch the least were the people who used to be developers.

As a former C++/VB/PHP Developer, I fit that rule.