Not Because it’s Right – But Because I Can
I like problems - no doubt about it. I like solving lots of problems, and I like delivering a really good product. It's just every now and then that it goes way too far. Like today... I got a packed field in a message, and rather than fix the upstream data source to not pack two data elements into one field with an uncertain delimiter, management decided that it was my job to fix it.
Not because it's right... but because I can.
It's happened so many time before, and in the end, everyone is happy because I don't make the upstream providers fix their broken stuff, and I don't make the downstream folks live with crappy data. I guess I'm the universal filter - and only good things come from me.
In a way, I guess it's a compliment, but it's really just hard to deal with some days. Like it's not enough that I do a great job - I have to be perfect - for everyone - or I'm sitting down on the job.
Yeah... it's not easy some days.