The end of the year around the office doesn't usually bring much in my direction. In years past, it was a very slow time of year with a lot of our people on vacation.
This year is different.
One of our software vendors requires that we update our software at the end of the year because it's time-sensitive. Okay, fine.
This year we decided to upgrade the software at the same time -- meaning: going from Version A to Version C (yes, we skipped a version, but we didn't think it would affect us that much). We went to the higher version because it had some features that we had actually requested. In the long run it will benefit us greatly.
In the short-term it's been a royal pain in the ass. We realized a few days before the new year that we had to convert all our current files to the new version (something we didn't have to do before). For some reason, I was the only one who seemed to care about this conversion. So I spent the next 3 days in the office converting somewhere around 60,000 files.
Of course I come in this morning (we had Monday off -- but I worked anyway) to find out all the things that people actually use that didn't work. Most of it was pretty minor but there was one sub-system that I completely missed. I stood up, took my lumps for missing it and -- to their credit -- the company didn't come down hard. We just did a bit of thinking about how to work around it.
So, basically my day today was fielding calls from people telling me what didn't work for them at that moment. I can't really blame them, they're just trying to do their job. I'm a bit dismayed that I didn't get more help doing mine.
Everyone around me was talking about how they had gotten used to taking naps during their days off. I'm thinking to myself "I only had Sunday off". That's the end of my pity party.
I'm going to work on those new year's resolutions. I figure, if I really want to resolve to do something I don't need a new year to begin doing it.
This year is different.
One of our software vendors requires that we update our software at the end of the year because it's time-sensitive. Okay, fine.
This year we decided to upgrade the software at the same time -- meaning: going from Version A to Version C (yes, we skipped a version, but we didn't think it would affect us that much). We went to the higher version because it had some features that we had actually requested. In the long run it will benefit us greatly.
In the short-term it's been a royal pain in the ass. We realized a few days before the new year that we had to convert all our current files to the new version (something we didn't have to do before). For some reason, I was the only one who seemed to care about this conversion. So I spent the next 3 days in the office converting somewhere around 60,000 files.
Of course I come in this morning (we had Monday off -- but I worked anyway) to find out all the things that people actually use that didn't work. Most of it was pretty minor but there was one sub-system that I completely missed. I stood up, took my lumps for missing it and -- to their credit -- the company didn't come down hard. We just did a bit of thinking about how to work around it.
So, basically my day today was fielding calls from people telling me what didn't work for them at that moment. I can't really blame them, they're just trying to do their job. I'm a bit dismayed that I didn't get more help doing mine.
Everyone around me was talking about how they had gotten used to taking naps during their days off. I'm thinking to myself "I only had Sunday off". That's the end of my pity party.
I'm going to work on those new year's resolutions. I figure, if I really want to resolve to do something I don't need a new year to begin doing it.