Yesterday for me was a really annoying day at work.
I won’t bore everyone with the details so I’ll just throw out one phrase that I don’t want to see again when I’m the only one left working in the office late at night – “You can only specify the READPAST lock in the READ COMMITTED or REPEATABLE READ isolation levels”
In case any SQL experts are passing…no, I don’t need any help with this now.
Where the heck were you last night when I did need you?
It was several months ago that I told the Operations Director and the Customer Services Manager that I would work better if there was a mini cocktail bar behind my desk.
There’s enough space between my chair and the window for one. I suppose that the reason that my request has never been fulfilled is that they’re worried that I’d never go home; but I definitely would.
If I stayed in the office I might end up doing a lot more work than I’m paid to do.
The cleaners were vacuuming around me at 8 o’clock and I was nowhere near finished. ‘Oh well, I’m locking the building and setting the alarm again,’ I thought (like most evenings).
One of the cleaners said to me that I must really love my job. “I wouldn’t be working at this time.”
“You’re here!” I pointed out to him.
I was prepared for yesterday being a late one, but Señora SQL Replication (actually, she probably isn’t Spanish) added an hour or two onto my anticipated workday. I’d cooked my tea the night before of lamb chops, boiled new potatoes and peas and came home to add a couple of slices of bread and two fried eggs. And when I did get to finally eat it, I had started to feel quite hungry and the plate failed to satisfy. I ended up eating too many biscuits with my evening RedBush tea.
Oh well, I managed to leave early today after speaking to the Senior Project Manager. I wonder who’s locking up the office tonight? Actually, I’m not really that bothered.
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