Well, at work today we had a user who insisted he had an expired order show on his list, and we spent a while investigating and told him that we don’t filter expired orders from the view. So he said “well it wasn’t like that yesterday”, and to analyze that sort of thing you need to look at the audit logs, which the developers (including me) don’t have access to. The business don’t even let the developers have access to the systems that they themselves have created. Gah.

Then I had a disagreement with a workmate who wants to stick to the tried and tested methods of software developement, rather than using a new way that I wanted to use. I would have saved a lot of time by doing it my way, but of course he was able to argue his point because it’s the documented method and therefore approved by the management.

Then the project lead announced that he is leaving on Wednesday. That’s so soon! He’s the only one that can keep calm in our team when things go bad (and things go bad a lot – all the developers in our team have very different styles – not good).

Then, we had a system crash on us at 5.05pm, just as I was about to walk out the door. It took me and four other people 80 minutes to get it running again. Like the morning, it would have taken 10 minutes if the developers were allowed access to the production system, but the management won’t let us have it. Craziness.

And then, on the way home when I went to Costcutter, I was overcharged and had to go back and complain. I was overcharged £1.08, not a lot, but when you’re only spending £5 it’s quite a lot. I don’t like complaining in stores because you make the sales assistant feel bad and then you feel bad because they feel bad.

At least when I left work at 6.30pm in the pouring rain I had remembered to bring my umbrella. And it’s Friday! So it’s not all bad.