The moron…

Sunday, August 13, 2006 @ 10:56 pm by -DS-

Have any of you ever had a moron for a boss?  I do. 

A few months ago my boss bought a new server to host the Database that nurtures the company, he only migrated what he -BELIEVED- was useful and sent the rest to the trash without even asking us (the programmers) or making a backup for those “just in case” situations.  Last Tuesday he comes to me and tells me that there is going to be a “Pre-inventory” this next Saturday (yesterday) and that he wanted me to check the program and the reports they were going to use.  When I go to check the program, surprise!, surprise!, It doesn’t work!  The moron deleted a database that the program needed to run properly.

After he freaked out from the news I gave him he told me to fix the program by Saturday, I was like WTF?!, SATURDAY?! THERE IS ONLY FOUR DAYS LEFT!!! To what he said “I know you can do it…”

What the fuck?

After looking at the program I found out that it was not that hard to fix and by Friday It was running perfectly, there was only one report bugging me but since it was already five o’clock and since I were coming to work on Saturday I decided to leave it for the next day.  When I told him that I was leaving he said that I needed to finish the report first to what I said that I was tired and needed to rest, and the fucking moron scoffed at me, he had the guts to tell me that this was more important.  At that moment I just exploded and told him that I deserved to rest because I had done enough already, that I restored, from zero, a database that he erased by being careless, that if he had told the other programmer to help me this would have been done sooner and that MY physical and mental health was way more important than the report.  He stayed quiet for a brief moment and then said “Ok, I understand you…” and then proceeded to talk about some random stuff, a few minutes later I was heading home with a headache.

Saturday went by without mayor events, the program worked beautifully and the report was completed before they had to use it. Not to be an ass, but now I can say that I am an awesome programmer, not everyone can reverse-engineer a program in less than four days and then yell at the boss and get away with it.  Tomorrow I will take the day off for the obvious reason, I went to work Saturday so I will have to call in sick.