Frustration Mounting
OK, today is unusually frustrating for me. Don't quite know why. Maybe it's because I had a few emails this morning about other very poor developers saying something was wrong with their code and it's my job to figure it out for them.
As a part of all that I've accomplished, there's an API that tests out fine, and is in use by several groups. This one group is the only one having problems and they are insisting that it's something in my code that's at fault. However, I've never been able to reproduce the problem - yet they seem to be plagued by it nightly... I've had a third party look over the code and they say there's nothing wrong with it... yet still this one group of developers are insisting that it's not their responsibility to find out what's wrong.
Finally, this morning, after dealing with them for weeks on this issue, I've decided to give them some of their own attitude. I've produced tests that work in all conditions time and time again. I then sent these to the group and explained that while I can see their log files, here are the tests I've run and the results under the different conditions. This, then, leads me to believe that it is unlikely that the problem is in the API. I'll let them figure it out for once.
I've gotten burned out... and it's showing. The fun is gone and what's left is a goal just to do enough to get by.
I need to find something that will bring back in the fun in work. I know what's worked in the past, and I'll try to find that again, but finding an interesting thing to do is not always easy when you're burned out and looking for a new job.