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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173033 More actions · Answer 1

Hope everyone enjoyed their long weekend (those of us who got one).

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

In other news...

The project from hell (the one that I spent evenings, nights and weekends on to try and meet impossible deadlines) has had the go-live date pushed out from beginning Dec to early January (by the business owner). Why? No reason, just because.

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Roy Ernest SSC-Dedicated Points: 38780 More actions · Answer 3

GilaMonster (11/29/2010)
In other news...
The project from hell (the one that I spent evenings, nights and weekends on to try and meet impossible deadlines) has had the go-live date pushed out from beginning Dec to early January (by the business owner). Why? No reason, just because.

So they make you work 24/7 and then push it off. Nice. Just like how it goes here. It is not a priority anymore, but here is a new project that has to be completed as of yesterday... 😀 Everywhere I guess it is the same sh**.

-Roy

Greg Edwards-268690 SSC-Insane Points: 20680 More actions · Answer 4

GilaMonster (11/29/2010)
In other news...
The project from hell (the one that I spent evenings, nights and weekends on to try and meet impossible deadlines) has had the go-live date pushed out from beginning Dec to early January (by the business owner). Why? No reason, just because.

Maybe they want to add some new enhancements.

Finally some sanity, and it has everyone on edge.

Our suggestion got tanked. The most common response - that just makes too much sense.:-D

Greg E

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Greg Edwards-268690 (11/29/2010)
Maybe they want to add some new enhancements.

Nope. No new enhancements. I think that a Dec go-live interferes with vacation plans

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398815 More actions · Answer 6

GilaMonster (11/29/2010)
Greg Edwards-268690 (11/29/2010)
Maybe they want to add some new enhancements.
Nope. No new enhancements. I think that a Dec go-live interferes with vacation plans

Exactly! I regularly have to remind our local project managers, "Uhm, do you really think trying to release on December 23rd is a good idea? Will you be available if there's an outage on the 24th?" Same thing with almost any other holiday too, but it's especially surprising at Yule.

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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 7

Grant Fritchey (11/29/2010)
GilaMonster (11/29/2010)
Greg Edwards-268690 (11/29/2010)
Maybe they want to add some new enhancements.
Nope. No new enhancements. I think that a Dec go-live interferes with vacation plans
Exactly! I regularly have to remind our local project managers, "Uhm, do you really think trying to release on December 23rd is a good idea? Will you be available if there's an outage on the 24th?" Same thing with almost any other holiday too, but it's especially surprising at Yule.

In this case is was supposed to be 1^st December. I would certainly have been available if there had been a problem.

At the bank we used to have a full system freeze (NOTHING changed) from 16 December through to the 2nd week of January.

Gail Shaw
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Jack Corbett SSC Guru Points: 184393 More actions · Answer 8

Well, I took a major tech break over my Thanksgiving holiday. The only time my computer was on since I left work last Wednesday was Thursday afternoon when we were Skypeing with Nannie in New England.

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Jan Van der Eecken SSCrazy Eights Points: 9029 More actions · Answer 9

The bank hasn't changed yet, Gail. We are going live on the 16th with our phase 1C. Then nothing till 16 February.

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95450 More actions · Answer 10

GilaMonster (11/29/2010)
In other news...
The project from hell (the one that I spent evenings, nights and weekends on to try and meet impossible deadlines) has had the go-live date pushed out from beginning Dec to early January (by the business owner). Why? No reason, just because.

Maybe the business owner read the thread, and realized that 1. they were screwed up, and 2. you like to play with long, sharp pointy things, and decided not to risk it. 😀

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WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95450 More actions · Answer 11

Jack Corbett (11/29/2010)
Well, I took a major tech break over my Thanksgiving holiday. The only time my computer was on since I left work last Wednesday was Thursday afternoon when we were Skypeing with Nannie in New England.

Great! did you feel like you were missing something, or was it a relief?

Wayne
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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 12

Jan Van der Eecken (11/29/2010)
The bank hasn't changed yet, Gail. We are going live on the 16th with our phase 1C. Then nothing till 16 February.

Makes sense. Late Dec is the last time you want to do a system change, with the increased usage before christmas and half the staff on leave.

I remember when a network change (how the hell it got authorised I have no idea) took down the entire ATM network for 8 or so hours, the entire corporate network for several hours and left internet banking offline for more than a day. On the 20th December.

Gail Shaw
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Alvin Ramard SSC-Forever Points: 41190 More actions · Answer 13

Greg Edwards-268690 (11/24/2010)
All this Joe talk has me thinking Whack A Mole....
Alvin -
I seem to also recall some steakhouse where you could get an insanely large piece of meat.
Like 60 oz.....and the smallest was a 8 oz filet.
Greg E

That doesn't ring as bell. I'm not the most knowlegeable on steakhouses.

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GilaMonster (11/29/2010)
In other news...
The project from hell (the one that I spent evenings, nights and weekends on to try and meet impossible deadlines) has had the go-live date pushed out from beginning Dec to early January (by the business owner). Why? No reason, just because.

Sounds like an excellent reason.

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CirquedeSQLeil (11/29/2010)
GilaMonster (11/29/2010)
In other news...
The project from hell (the one that I spent evenings, nights and weekends on to try and meet impossible deadlines) has had the go-live date pushed out from beginning Dec to early January (by the business owner). Why? No reason, just because.
Sounds like an excellent reason.

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