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Original Post Date: 2007-12-03 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
At the company I work for we have a company-wide SMS system we can use. It was written by some white guys a few years back when I first got there.
Then it was handed over to some black guys to take care of.
It is a feature I use quite a bit, and in a company of 1,500 people I’m probably the only one who every so often sends an SMS to myself to check whether the SMS system is working. I started doing that a year ago when I realised that I’d send an sms which I thought reached someone – but it never did. Or, it gets there DAYS later.
So I instituted a simple test where each morning, I’d send myself an sms to see if the system is working.
Previously this system would run for months with no problems at all. In fact, I used it for years before I ever realised that it crashes on occasion. But nowadays it crashes with alarming frequency.
I find myself emailing my bosses, the programmers and the server staff saying: “Excuse me but I think the SMS system is not working”.
Sometimes they’ll fight with me and tell me its working. Then I’ll tell them: Send an sms to yourself and see. Then they’ll admit I’m right.
Nowadays, the SMS system at my work is so bad that I find myself complaining at least once a week. Then they have to dig around until it works.
God knows if I don’t complain… I think there would be hundreds of people who’d use it and not know it isn’t working.
The other day I spoke to the young black guy with university degrees, who managed the programming team responsible for the SMS’s. This is the same guy who laughed at me some years ago – The Two Blacks who laughed at me & mocked me I must add that both of these black guys who laughed at me and mocked me have now worked here for a number of years and their cockiness is largely gone. They’ve been in the firing line and they’ve had hell where they work nights and are totally stumped with problems they created. They’ve seen how difficult our work really is. I’ve in the meantime been asked to do the quality control and to set the standards for all the teams here, including theirs. My non-white bosses force them to adhere to the standards I set BECAUSE OF THE INNACCURACY OF THEIR WORK. It has helped… but some of their cockiness has been kicked out of them – for the good.
They still can’t manage to do what we used to do before they came here. So the tables have been turned somewhat. I’m sure the ANC must feel the same way too. They always had big mouths about Apartheid and the Afrikaner-dominated system that existed previously, but now they’re having a rough time trying to run the country in a semi-decent way. It is actually a LOT HARDER than they thought…
So I said to the formerly cocky black the one day, “Why don’t you develop a method of figuring out that SMS’s aren’t working” – AUTOMATICALLY – so it can email people or warn them that the SMS system is down.
Then he gave me a long boring story about why he can’t do this. I just smiled. In short, according to his wishy washy excuse there is no solution to the problem. But I don’t care enough to even want to bother to show him how I’d solve the problem.
Of course there’s the deeper issue of why a company which spends over R100 million a year on servers and software, can’t keep the SMS system stable!
But let’s not go there.
The thing is… I know the actual people working these systems. I know the systems, I’m technical and I know the environments and it amazes me that something as SIMPLE as an SMS system is giving us so many problems. Its a simple job which must run 24/7. It used to run 24/7. Why can’t someone see to it that remains up 24/7 without all this manual hassle? We have the tools, the technology – everything.
Sometimes, like today, its taken complaints and emails back and forth for a couple of hours and I saw SMS’s going out that I’d actually sent several days ago!!!
I shake my head. The company I work for is like S.Africa. It is like Africa. Nobody cares anymore. Tomorrow is another day. Things which used to work no longer work – for no particularly understandable reason. And nobody gives a damn! Jan.