i have been a responsible adult for nearly a solid week now, and i am overcome by a feeling not unlike ants crawling under my skin, driving me to commit vile deeds of an extremely biological and depraved nature. i choose to blame this on [server hosting company], where there is some kind of affirmative action plan in place mandating that they maintain no less than 50% of their staff as mentally disabled people.
to wit: they applied a patch to our server. the site immediately slowed down by a factor of 300 or so. when i called to find out whom to flay, their reaction was to ask if i had poorly re-coded the entire site overnight, and suggested that was where the problem was coming from.
no, i did not re-write and upload 400 pages of asp and sql code overnight just for shits and grins on our weekly patch day.
the problem ended up, naturally, being in a couple settings in some new software they uploaded, which they forgot to check and configure. it took many hours on the phone with multiple engineers for them to realize this.
i want, so very badly, to be able to do a completely shitty job all the time and still get paid for it. this cannot be that hard to engineer, as i have seen it from many, many internets and web development houses in this state. lightburn? you guys are still the magnificent bastard kings of this. no other place i've seen can get away with delivering a site over a YEAR late, and retain clients. whomever does your p.r. is not getting paid enough.
on a less tech related note: if you like anything brockway ever wrote for cracked.com, go get his book 'everything is going to kill everybody', it is hilarious.
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