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Before Chris W. took a stab at optimizing the below code, it had been a pain in the neck of his employer for a looong time.
Running in a call center, it loops through agents stored in a database table, queries their queues and the skills on the queue. It then inserts a record in another table for each combination.
When Mike's manager asked if he'd like to take a stab at doing some maintenance on the Freight Calculator, naturally, he agreed.
After all, like many manager requests, it's not like he really had a choice in the matter, though Mike sorely wished that he did. The Freight Calculator, a MS Access/VBA "app", was previously maintained by a former fellow developer named Trent who had moved on to supposedly greener pastures a few weeks earlier. Like many in the department, Mike often heard Trent cursing under his breath any time he walked past so his departure was not at all unexpected. Though Trent was the only developer who had delved into the inner workings of the Freight Calculator, it already carried a reputation throughout the department as being a nightmare application to support. A reputation that Mike soon witnessed as being well earned.
Now, it wasn’t that Gary was an unlikeable person, he just had a pompous arrogant attitude that got in the way of coworkers in Jake’s workplace from getting to know the true, “hidden” Gary. A self-proclaimed “genius developer extraordinaire”, he was famous around the office for two things.
First being…pointing out how much of a genius he is! During his morning rounds, Gary would strike up a conversation about his latest round of changes saved the company untold sums of money, all the while, sprinkling in words like “instantiate” and “overload” as often and as irrelevantly as possible.
It's time once again for Bizarre Emails Day! Got one your self? Then mail in your mail!
"It's a good thing unit tests can be turned off so that the build succeeds," Botia wrote, "Otherwise, how could we ever get the changes into production?"
Dec 10