Oct 15, 2007

The Trap™ Returns

Remember my rant about how dissatisfied I was with management at some company? I intentionally left out the details. Didn't want to talk about a particular person/company. Really. Just an innocent expression of my anger and wish for more people who have fundamental knowledge of what their employees do.
And guess what? One person I used to work with recently found that post and got very angry over it. Yeah, I know it wasn't nice, but it wasn't personal either. You really should take some things with a grain of salt, otherwise you can turn meaningless trifles into terrible nightmares and benevolent allies into worst enemies.
Besides that, YOU have ranted about me and my useless "technical correctness" a lot and very directly. And I don't go crazy about it. I work with different people now, and guess what? Just like me, they wouldn't agree with you that "it's practically impossible to have development and production version of software synchronized". These are you own words. And those... how did you call it? "Purely academic deliberations" that was. Do you still think that SVN, design patterns and unit tests have no use in real life applications?
I just hope that your employees will appreciate that I've introduced things like version control and some automated processes to your company. I guess you don't and probably think it was just a pointless waste of time. If that's the case... well, I'm sorry. I should have left you with the just-WinSCP-the-whole-thing-and-hotfix-live-on-the-server solution.
Anyways, I've gotta go finish my (pretty neat by the way) deskbar plugin for my next post. Wish you all the best (yes, I really do).
Posted by Robert Nasiadek at 10:46 PM

3 comments:

  1. Become a man. Stop whining. Have an opinion, fight for it. If you want to do something, do it. You had a chance to change it, you didn't make it. I understand why someone is angry at you. I know this kind of people like you. Some day some one will kick you ass harder for this kind of shit you do with your friends.

    Just do what you do, but always be 100% sure you do it well for your company, not for yourself. World is too small to write this kind of shit. Next month your current team may be your next Trap Ltd.
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  2. First of all, I'm not whining. I'm laughing. You've got wrong impression. And actually, I DO have my own opinion. In fact I have a very strong opinion and I always stand up for it.

    The thing is that sometimes it just isn't worth it. You can try to improve things around you despite others not wanting to make progress, but after a few months you just realize you've been wasting your time. You can't help people who don't want to be helped, so the best thing you can do is move on. If you stay with those people they'll hold you back and you will be the one who suffers the most.

    How can you say you know me? You've never seen me, never talked to me, never asked a single question, never tried to understand my reasoning. You're a very hasty man.

    Anyways, thanks for leaving a pointless comment. Next time just make sure you post something constructive. Or at least don't post anonymously, so that we know who likes to flamebait.
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  3. Hi Robert,

    Wow. I didn't know that you are so extraverted. We are all sorry in company that you never stand up and say what now you are writing in this blog.

    Yes, you may have rights to be frustrated. But at the and you have frustrated much more people then you think. I will not write a line of text talking about our project management and your skills, because i think it is very nasty what you wrote about us. Bottom line, we are glad that we split and not working together any more.

    Robert - Our company is not in IT business. I am sorry, you are/were completely wrong about our services. Maybe because you have so much problems in communicating with us thinking continuously about your internal problems. I think you are special and we didn't have time to explain you basics. We thought that your project is so simple, that you will understand how the origin works, follow and upgrade. We were wrong. Point.

    All the best Robert. I wish you will find your small heaven for programmers. Hope to be in touch and congratulation for very interesting blog. Keep it alive!

    PS. I am not recent "anonymous" commentator.
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