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Admin
I thought this was normal? I mean, 70% of my job is filling out the requirements documents and other red tape after I've coded an object, and waiting for all the approvals so the fixes can to into production in three weeks....
Admin
I think I understand the thinking here ...
People who are online can access the application when it's online. Therefore, people who are offline must be able to access the application when it's offline. Consequently, the sky will fall because if the DBA can access the system, and he's just a DBA, then anyone can access the system, because everybody else is so much more important than a DBA.
Remind me: what's a computer again? Isn't it someone who comes to work on the bus?
Admin
Management: because otherwise you'd be able to do your job easily.
Admin
Teeangers can be hard enough to deal with. But don't get me started on man-agers... ;-)
Admin
Yep, A computer should com into work everyday to compute the figures. Like an editor edits the newspaper text. If the computer did not do their work, how on earth, do you think we had all these log n tables in the 60'ties in our books of tables?
Admin
reverse waterfall?
Admin
Aren't all managers at C*** level?
Oh. sorry. Miscounted.
I'll go back to lurking.
Admin
So... instead of scheduling the fix for the next night (it's not really critical and presumably no-one has exploited it yet) or next weekend or whenever, they take the data offline NOW and THEN send a misleading e-mail to tell everybody on the phone that the data is offline now? The DBA is TRWTF.
If it was really that critical, they could just have sent an e-mail saying "pro-active emergency patch, data will be offline until xxx".
Also, why must ALL data be offline while they fix it? Can't they do it in batches and start with the old shit that nobody uses?
Admin
I didn't know RBDMS supported branches.
Admin
Admin
Bidet management. You do the business and then management sprays cold water up your backside.
Admin
So... instead of scheduling the fix for the next night (it's not really critical and presumably no-one has exploited it yet) or next weekend or whenever, they take the data offline NOW and THEN send a misleading e-mail to tell everybody on the phone that the data is offline now? The DBA is TRWTF.
Where does it say the DBA sent the panicked email?
Admin
But you are right, the stupid email might have been sent by the DBA's PHB.
Admin
This all is entirely predictable.
The reason is that when there's a completely solvable crisis in an organization, managers will be falling over each other trying to get credit for solving it. Indeed, there are managers who will create completely solvable crises for the purpose of getting credit for solving them. When the DBA described a perfectly reasonable plan for fixing the problem with no risk to the organization, the managers didn't see "Ok, he's got it under control, no need to panic" and instead saw "100% guaranteed political advantage to whomever makes it look like they took the lead on this".
And no, the peons never get credit for actually solving the problem. And they definitely get no credit for preventing the problem from existing in the first place, nor for quietly solving it before the bigwigs even know it exists.
Admin
You jest, but Oracle does.
Admin
Trwtf is "Hipaa" in the graph. PascalCase acronyms are delightful.
Admin
Wow... this article reflects my work life so well. Either this was my company or the executives at most health insurance companies are like this.
Or just executives in general :sob:
Admin
I wouldn't blame Pascal for this. It's common usage for acronyms.
Here's what the BBC has to say on the subject:
Where you would normally say the abbreviation as a string of letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces (eg FA, UNHCR, NUT). However, our style is to use lower case with an initial cap for acronyms, where you would normally pronounce the set of letters as a word (eg Aids, Farc, Eta, Nafta, Nasa, Opec, Apec).
Admin
The policy should be write it like the acronym's creator wrote it
Admin
Yeah... it's just a little ridiculous sometimes. I do my best to keep the water flowing down stream, but so often enough I get people throwing buckets of it back up the hill.... :non-potable_water:
Admin
Mind blown, I think. Querying $Head for status of @Mind.... Not found. Status confirmed: There are not thinks here.
Admin
Wait...
How is that pronounced then? I've always said "Ee tee aiye". Is it something else, like "Et-ha"?Admin
Admin
I, too, have always said (and heard other people say) the individual letters when used for "estimated time of arrival." I was guessing that there was some other meaning (government agency, perhaps?) for which the Brits pronounce it as a word. CBA to google for other meanings, though.
Admin
Don't worry, that terrible lizard hasn't been maintenanced in a while, it may take a while to trounce it's way over...
Employment and Training Administration? Experience the Adventure? Extra Terrestrial Alien? Earthy Tungsten Aluminum?Admin
Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Captain Obvious to the rescue!)
Admin
You'd have to ask a journalist who studied with the BBC about that one. For Estimated Time of Arrival, I always treat it as an initialism.
For other uses of those three letters there's no reason you couldn't pronounce it as an acronym. You could also do it with other initialisms, but you rarely refer to the American spy agency as "See-ya" or the football club from Milan as an impolite an anatomically improbable suggestion of what the listener can do with Milano.
Admin
Kind of, since the BBC means Eta the Basque terrorist organisation trying to get political independence from Spain.
Admin
So what's the policy on how to pronounce GIF? :trolleybus:
Admin
You will never get me to pronounce if "jif", because it doesn't stand for jraphic interchange format.
Admin
Easy: in IPA,
ˈɡɪf(Graphics Interchange Format)Admin
while that is true for the expansion most english speakers when introduced to the word
gifwill pronounce it asghotiAdmin
Seems fairly sane.
Manager gets confused about a tech issue, calls in legal to understand the possible consequences, it becomes evident that somebody doesn't understand HIPAA compliance (it's a big deal), so a boss steps in to make sure everybody is on the same page.
Admin
Admin
never heard of ghoti?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Q1cM7_ai4
Admin
I have now :smile:
Admin
and now you know why i put the joke in there. :-P
Admin
https://youtu.be/_0TsqVKmjAw
Admin
To me it looks like the DBA needed some Jedi karma. He should have said "Nothing to see here, please go away".
Admin
-spooky handwave-
"This is not the conversation you are looking for"
Admin
“at&t” “bp”
…
Style guides exist to provide consistency and readability, not to indulge brand managers. The BBC convention looks weird to me, but I’m American. We even put periods after abbreviated honorifics.
Admin
Is that a golf thing?
Admin
Logos don't count; after all, no-one writes
pepsiorPEPSI, do they?Also: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/BP_Motor_Spirit%2C_1922.jpg
Admin
1.21 jigawatts!
Admin
Probably outnumbered by the managers who allow completely soluble crises to develop in the hope that someone else will get blamed for them.
Admin
Edited To Add.
ETA: For example, like this.
Admin
Except, of course, no English words pronounce gh as f at the beginning of the word; nor is a final ti ever pronounced sh, so this contrived example doesn't actually make sense. A better word would use such oddities as "hiccough" being pronounced "hiccup".
Admin
ghoti would never be pronounced like fish, because no! but the individual phonemes in it can and do sound like
f,iandshwhen part of the host words they were lifted from (at least in some dialects/accents)Admin
And neither are accepted as true spellings; in fact, there is no widely-recognised correct spelling of that word.
Admin
and yet almost all english speakers know that word.