Code Cleanup
Today has been a lot of little things to try and get the application's performance good enough so that it can still run in EC2 for the few days that it has left in that datacenter. I'm trying to put in simple, clean fixes to minimize the time spent in an overall run so that we can get more divisions out in the same period of time.
This brings up the point that's been bugging me for a few days, and that's expectations. I'm really getting tired of making extraordinary effort for some management folks that really don't seem to recognize the nature of the effort, or appreciate what it is that I'm really doing.
It's nothing I haven't seen before, but it's always a little sad the first time you see it at a new job. That realization that this guy is no batter than that other guy at the previous place, and they are going to push and make artificial deadlines and then pre tent to "tell Dad" if you don't meet them.
Working last week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday to make a deadline that I didn't think was possible, just to make it possible for this guy to tell his superiors that his team "did it" was something I was willing to do - as long as it was appreciated. But it wasn't. So now this guy has marginalized himself. I won't break my back to get him out of his own jam any more.
But hey… what am I doing now, then? I'm trying to make this work as opposed to just letting it fail.
I'm a chump.