this is why I prefer COBOL

:D

You're a sick man.

What I saw: From my couch I connected to my company's VPN, remote desktopped into my test development box, launched a script that monitored a server's power state, powered on the server, started listening for iperf traffic, kicked off iperf on a second server, shut the first server down, monitored for a system crash, then started the cycle over if it didn't crash.


What CP saw: Me doing a victory dance because the text displayed in a CMD window went from "OFF" to "ON".

This is why I have a hard time answering, "What do you do for a living?"

What the QA Lead saw:
Not so fast buster, I'll be the one to tell you it actually did something.

What the product manager saw:
Wait, this is what I get billed 2,300 hours for?

What the end-line business owner saw:
Is it too late to completely change what it should do?

pfft. thats not even the first time Ive heard that today

Which is why, for now, I'm happy to retain all of those titles. I'm writing tools to accomplish my own job, which makes me developer, QA, product manager, and end customer all in one.

The conference calls get confusing.

Saw your parole officer again today?

I don't know why I scanned through the whole thing looking for words that made sense. But I believe the subject at hand is robust hard coding pythons. Not sure what's so interesting about that.

"Ooohhhh, IT Guy....your coding is so hard....so....robust...."

I was always pretty handy with recursion.