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    Welcome to the corporate culture

    As I posted a while ago I took a permie position last year. Reasonably happy with the job but jeez trying to get something done. I need to change one option in a config file - raise a ticket, it goes to a committee, they fanny around with it and then approve it (or not), two weeks later I'm still waiting.

    I write some software to automate some tasks, it goes to a review board for approval - three weeks later still heard nothing.

    The smallest proposal requires multiple meetings so progress is almost but not quite stalled.

    Not really a complaint just adjusting

    I'm going back to contracting soonest opportunity
    Me, me, me...

    #2
    Well they have to please their legal/compliance departments, so endless bureaucracy it is.

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      #3
      Stuck in the same loop, here - but at least I'm billing. It's exceptionally frustrating though - it's been a while since I've worked somewhere quite this bad, but it's a public sector contract with $BigSysIntegrator so not exactly a surprise.

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        #4
        It does seem endemic.
        I joined a project nearly a year ago; the original BA had created a list of half a dozen use-cases (list1).
        'the management team' decided to review/assess/update them. Nine months of lengthy reviews, daily meetings later they
        produce list 2.

        yep list1 == list2

        invoice, drink, invoice....

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          #5
          The perfect contract.

          Do very little, stay a very long time, invoice an eye watering sum.

          Retire early and kick back.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Cliphead View Post
            As I posted a while ago I took a permie position last year. Reasonably happy with the job but jeez trying to get something done. I need to change one option in a config file - raise a ticket, it goes to a committee, they fanny around with it and then approve it (or not), two weeks later I'm still waiting.

            I write some software to automate some tasks, it goes to a review board for approval - three weeks later still heard nothing.

            The smallest proposal requires multiple meetings so progress is almost but not quite stalled.

            Not really a complaint just adjusting

            I'm going back to contracting soonest opportunity
            Are you working in a swiss bank by any chance?
            "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


            Thomas Jefferson

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              #7
              Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
              Are you working in a swiss bank by any chance?
              Nowhere near that sector, manufacturing (high tech).
              Me, me, me...

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                #8
                It used to be annoying, then they moved all of these 'ticket fulfillers' offshore and that was that for me.

                Hunting down someone with a 50 character name in Bangalore for 2 weeks to get a login for a dev database.

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                  #9
                  The team I work for at a bank is currently on the verge of losing their production access which they have used for deployments for the last few years.

                  They were pretty agile in terms of getting new stuff released, but only because for whatever reason they had the access to do so. It's about to become more difficult - rightly so of course, but if it was a happy medium fine, but it probably mean a total pain in the backside.

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                    #10
                    Last bank gig I was at I was in charge of updations for 3 applications.

                    Each updation would take 2 days. Really all it took was overwriting a file and running an update on the DB.

                    Most of the work would involve writing the standard nonsensical update document which described each code change, hunting down people that should be involved in the updation, getting them committed to it ( usually by escalation to some manager ) then getting them there on time & online to do their minor part in the whole thing.

                    It was like building the tower of Babel 3 times every 2 weeks.

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