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Originally posted by Sysman View PostI 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.
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostThe 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.
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.
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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.
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Originally posted by TestMangler View PostMr 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
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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
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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.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostClient 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.
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Originally posted by Cliphead View PostGermany here I come. Service and a third cheaper to live. Fck this tuliphole.
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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.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostPart of the job these days, what was once an email to your DBA a few rows down...
"Hi Mate, Good weekend?, got a script that needs run on UAT, can you check them out and run them if there is no issues, cheers"
...becomes a week long IM sh1te fest to India.
Oracle Business Intelligence exports, after fighting with goal posts that literally got up and ran away with you, I kept getting my file failing when the Bobs tried to import. Kept checking it, the date format was perfect sent a hand checked import file (one of many) to 'Profiling' it failed again (after a weeks waiting.
So I asked to see the profiling log with the SQL, strange they had 4 different ways of importing dates only 2 of which worked and one of which was right. Sent our Bob DBA's some new sql and hey presto a pass. About this time my Boss started saying to me 'why is it taking so long?', I checked every team was spending the same amount of time in profiling.
Was like moving through quicksand.
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Part of the job these days, what was once an email to your DBA a few rows down...
"Hi Mate, Good weekend?, got a script that needs run on UAT, can you check them out and run them if there is no issues, cheers"
...becomes a week long IM sh1te fest to India.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostYou could say I wasted a week on a simple DB update but really client co wasted a lot of money trying to save money by offshoring.
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