To the pub

[SupremeSpod]

Client Co's latest strategy...

DB update scripts are branched and tagged in SVN, then the details are put into an excel document and a macro creates XML that is then placed into a web form and uploaded, someone in India then has to click a button and you script is run.

What's wrong with using Jenkins, Hudson etc....?

[minestrone]

The java will be done in jenkins but the DB scripts have to be done through the 'release management' process.

I can kind off see the point of what they are trying to achieve, making sure that what goes into prod has been through UAT but the manner in which it is done is bonkers.

[TestMangler]

Mr Clipster, see if your problems are line and/or exchange related, then changing providers doesn't help. I changed the cafe to Plusnet when I still had it and they still had to wait to get Bt to fix the exchange issue (which BT insisted was a router problem in my house).

One of the perils of living in the sticks I suppose. Anyway, you couldn't watch yer beloved tattie-munchers every week if you lived in hun-land

[Cliphead]

Mr Clipster, see if your problems are line and/or exchange related, then changing providers doesn't help. I changed the cafe to Plusnet when I still had it and they still had to wait to get Bt to fix the exchange issue (which BT insisted was a router problem in my house).

One of the perils of living in the sticks I suppose. Anyway, you couldn't watch yer beloved tattie-munchers every week if you lived in hun-land

The problem is being billed for kit I didn't order and the promised rebate for four weeks without phone or broadband hasn't been deducted. No problem watching Celtic games in Germany or anywhere else outside of the UK.

[Cliphead]

Finally sorted with BT and got the bill reduced by the correct amount. Only took five hours over two days on the phone, spoke to ten different people mostly in India who when they get hit with a difficult problem or can't be arsed just kill the call thus starting the merry go round again.

Shocking customer service as we all know.

Down the pub again to recover and lower the blood pressure.

[d000hg]

The day Pakistan nukes India can't come quick enough.

An entirely reasonable reaction to unavailability of online ladies.

[Sysman]

The problem is being billed for kit I didn't order and the promised rebate for four weeks without phone or broadband hasn't been deducted. No problem watching Celtic games in Germany or anywhere else outside of the UK.

I used to have a Swiss gf who was potty about Celtic and we never had a problem with finding a channel to watch Celtic games.

You have my sympathies on the BT front. They were the ones who gave me the final push in deciding to look for work outside the UK.

[TestMangler]

I used to have a Swiss gf who was potty about Celtic and we never had a problem with finding a channel to watch Celtic games.

You have my sympathies on the BT front. They were the ones who gave me the final push in deciding to look for work outside the UK.

And you have my sympathies on the Celtic front too

[Diver]

Were the Yell offices in the Millenium Tower in central Cardiff?

Newport & Bristol

[Cliphead]

And you have my sympathies on the Celtic front too

Shhhhh