American Techies

[SandyDown]

Six weeks ago I put a request in for a simple extraction script. It still doesnt work.

I sent the schema I wanted, the format I wanted it, where I wanted, when I wanted it with additional rules.

Fours weeks later I get

THe format they wanted to send it in.
Sent to the wrong DB
Sent at the wrong time
Sent with the wrong where clause
and no rules.

After getting this sorted, the new year kicks in and the whole thing stops working.

The US DBA (obviously Jnr) says theres nothing wrong. A week later I escalate it and have a conference call. He says theres nothing wrong. I make him send the script. He says theres nothing wrong with it.

Less than 30 seconds after getting it, I tell him to test the first line. It's wrong.

No f-cking apology. He spends the next 20 minutes looking at it and then goes 'Oh its got the wrong date'

No apology. No 'oh I ****ed up'. ******.

I should send him a thank you card though. Held me up for a few weeks and therefore another two weeks added on to the contract. Nice.

MF can't you write a simple extraction script yourself??

[bogeyman]

The US DBA (obviously Jnr)

Wrong assumption MF.

In many years of working with our American cousins, I found that most of them were technically (nay, pathologically) incompetent. It's not just the juniors. The 'old hands' are some of the worst.

They tend to have very narrow fields of expertise and stick in the same job year in, year out (for decades even). JES2 'exit specialist' anyone ???

There are exceptions of course, but in the main, Americans think they know it all, and nobody can teach then anything about anything.

It's no wonder that third-world technicians are stealing the food off their tables.

[MarillionFan]

Six weeks ago I put a request in for a simple extraction script. It still doesnt work.

I sent the schema I wanted, the format I wanted it, where I wanted, when I wanted it with additional rules.

Fours weeks later I get

THe format they wanted to send it in.
Sent to the wrong DB
Sent at the wrong time
Sent with the wrong where clause
and no rules.

After getting this sorted, the new year kicks in and the whole thing stops working.

The US DBA (obviously Jnr) says theres nothing wrong. A week later I escalate it and have a conference call. He says theres nothing wrong. I make him send the script. He says theres nothing wrong with it.

Less than 30 seconds after getting it, I tell him to test the first line. It's wrong.

No f-cking apology. He spends the next 20 minutes looking at it and then goes 'Oh its got the wrong date'

No apology. No 'oh I ****ed up'. ******.

I should send him a thank you card though. Held me up for a few weeks and therefore another two weeks added on to the contract. Nice.