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This topic is one that I relate to only too well. In my current job being in multiple states of being stuck, is the normal state of affairs. I could relate dozens of examples where I have been stuck trying to do something at work, both in the past and currently. But I'll relate just one.
About 7 years ago I was given the thankless task of being our Team Foundation Server (TFS) Administrator. We had a TFS 2015 on-premises server, which no one ever gave enough resources to. For years TFS would run out of disk space every month. I would have to fill out a help ticket to get additional space added to the VM TFS sat in. They would always grant a paltry amount of additional disk space, which was never enough because it would always run out of space the next month. To this day I don't understand how come no one in IT saw the pattern that adding only a little more disk space and having that consumed within a month, was the recurring problem that it was, but they didn't see it.
So, 6 years ago I started advocating to move away from TFS to Git. It took 6 years for management to finally agree. Now our VCS is in GitHub, and everyone is much happier. But, 6 years of not listening to sound advice and allowing a monthly reducing to no productivity every month, for years?! If I'd known 6 years ago that nothing would happen for 6 years, I would never have started the whole process. There's a lot of, "I couldn't care less" attitude.
Ryan, you make a good point that having a caring community of family, close friends, and colleagues around you is important. But sometimes you don't have all three. I do have family, but that's it. No close friends and most certainly no colleagues to lean upon. This has resulted in my experiencing massive burnout that won't go away over a weekend.
Kindest Regards, Rod Connect with me on LinkedIn.
- Rod at work wrote:
To this day I don't understand how come no one in IT saw the pattern that adding only a little more disk space and having that consumed within a month, was the recurring problem that it was, but they didn't see it.
Did you have access to the disk(s) it was on to be able to see the allocated vs used sizes?
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Jeff, no, I don't have access to the TFS VM's disk to see allocated vs. used disk space.
Kindest Regards, Rod Connect with me on LinkedIn.
- Rod at work wrote:
Jeff, no, I don't have access to the TFS VM's disk to see allocated vs. used disk space.
Bummer. And, yeah... them not "getting it" after all the issues is another bummer. You'd think that an infrastructure group would have figured out how to estimate 13 months worth of space to allocate.
And, no... not a typo... 13 months for yearly evaluations to make sure there's enough for 12 months evaluated in the same month every year.
It seems like all of that has passed for you now but I would have suggested such a thing to them. Of course, that would also mean that they have to be setup to track disk space to begin with. 🙁
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) -
Speaking of "stuck"... rumor has it that the good folks at SSC are going to start working on problems like the one I'm getting ready to experience when I hit the SUBMIT button on this post, which looks something like this...
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) - Jeff Moden wrote:
For years, I've been getting that same error every time I submit, but it still creates the post.
Because it wasn't being talked about, I assumed it had to do with the corporate firewall where I work.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
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