the week

So I almost never blog about work but every day this week has been so draining that I am just trying to survive it so far. First the week started with my manager telling me that he was leaving to go start his own company. That's a shocker especially since he was one of the original people on the team and wrote most of the code. Then again, that would make him the most likely to leave I guess. Heh. So I spent monday night feeling mildly stressed about the future of our team (and no I'm not going to be the manager in his place b/c frankly I just don't want to deal with handling people. And especially since there is someone on our team that I don't like. I just wouldn't be able to be objective about it).

Tuesday, things went into the crapper on the site. Not the main site that the world sees but our backend machines that my team owns. Not once but twice. The first time, I was the first to notice and got the person who caused the issue to fix it. Then around 5:30pm, the site went into complete meltdown again but this time, we had no clue what was going on. An hour goes by, then another. Then on an entirely random fluke, I found the problem. Seriously, it was completely random and at that point, I was almost ready to head home myself. As it is, I still sort of have that feeling of "how the hell did you forget that out?". It reminded me of this moment at my last job where my coworker had spent a day looking at 1 bug where the financial balance wasn't adding up. Then I got roped into helping him and after another day of just reading code, I hit that eureka moment of knowing exactly what the bug was. It is an incredible high. Of course it comes after hours of nail biting stress it is perhaps not quite worth the payoff.

And of course now comes today. We push new code every wednesday and usually it goes smoothly. But here I am in the middle of the night helping my coworker who is doing the push where everything that has possibly gone wrong has.

Bah. Well, at least it gave me a chance to blog as we wait for something to compile.