As a quick disclaimer, the above isn’t true. But the feeling of euphoria I got earlier today made me think so. Briefly. Story…
I got "tested" at work today. It was actually subtler than was first apparent and for any of you toying with looking for work soon, it’s worth reading through. Boss Man (Roy) lunged at my desk just before lunch and said he had something for me to do. Great – a task!
Basically, they’ve got some problems with the Import / Conversion routine that they needed fixing. Now, I am not a programmer. I’m a bodger who knows a bit of coding as it’s needed. But it’s part of the job and I have studied SQL a bit so I can get my head round code. Two specific issues were pointed out and I was asked to resolve them.
*GULP*
It’s fine to have a set of textbooks in front of you and a coursework question. Another with no references and a live system to repair.
I stared at the first problem. In my head I knew how to do it – in fact I could suss three ways. I could get it to work in single lines, but not as a routine. I stared some more. Blood started to seep from the pores in my forehead. OK, it didn’t really. If it had then I may not have finished unless they have wireless LANs in casualty.
I tackled it another way. No. I’m missing something. Eyes left. John’s not busy. So I asked him. Five minutes and some pointers later and I had a routine that worked. A few more and some clarification from the boss and I had it spot on, compiled and merged in with the other live code. Cool!
Now, the thing is he wasn’t actually testing my technical ability. He was testing whether I’d ask someone if I got stuck. In my second interview, with their techy guy, he’d posed me a question along the lines of what I’d do if faced with a situation I wasn’t sure about. I answered honestly – try my best, look at it, refer to anything I had to hand and then ask someone who’d know. I was told that the last bit was just the thing he was after.
So bear that in mind – don’t pretend you know everything. They actually appreciate a bit of honesty!
And my posts just haven’t been funny recently have they? Sorry about that. But at least it means I’ve spared you the details of the fact that I feel like I’ve got a brick in my stomach cos I’ve not **** in 36 hours.
bags I’m standing BEHIND anni in the viewing gallery dressed in a 1-piece hazmat suit with extra charcoal breather filters…
Don’t you just love it when a plan works out. And get yourself some Andrews’.
Pip-pip
Egg & Chips
Fruit & Fibre
I *always* ask people – but maybe that’s cos I am lazy!
And thanks for sharing your bowel problems. Bananas are good?
And how’s the shoulder?
It actually made many small *plip plip* noises as each rabbit-dropping-sized pebble hit the water.
Then a *gushshhhshhshhplooosh* once the cork had come out.
Just think about Graham Souness – there…… I bet you’ve got the runs already..
On the matter of the row between Souey and Bellamy…. A wag texted into FiveLive saying that Craig should just be quiet and shut his gob – and thus prove the old adage ….
‘Least said, Souness mended’
More people have looked at your bowel problems as a source of interest !!!!
So.. the task at hand/whisk :o) .. Never a bad thing to ask anout anything when you are in a new place
Now THAT I would have liked to see.
From a distance, of course.
Eeugh, at the thought of being close enough for splash-back….
Shoulder still hurts like a bastard but is getting better.
Sushi or vindaloo would have made what I’d eaten *since* come back up the other way…
Most of the poop seems to have worked its way through. No food necessary. Just some KY and a rotary whisk.
Sushi??
Tell me Mosh? Did it make a comedy *pop* noise when it finally become unblocked?
Vindaloo!