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Haha! Well, you caught me Dave. I said way back on 4/3/06, in the short post entitled "Dear Blogger..." that I'd post later that day with the gory details of my last few weeks of busy-ness. And, well...I got busy again and didn't post that post that I said I would post. So, here it is -- all of it.
About three weeks ago, life was seemingly normal for me at work. Until, the boss came over to the little space I call "the cube" and addressed Skip (my buddy and fellow outcast-coder) with a proposal. A new business group at EMSI (we'll call them HSD) had acquired some new business -- namely BNSF and CSX Railroads -- with a system that would revolutionize the way that drug and alcohol testing was conducted for their employees. A system that would merge scheduling those tests with the actual lab results. Needless to say, one system existed and the other system needed to be built. So, Skip and I were charged with the effort which I had estimated would take approximately 150 man-hours to complete (that's a little over three weeks). We were given two options: a) Get it to test in two weeks = $500 bonus; OR b) Get it to production in two weeks = $1k bonus.
After working through spring break, planned vacation time and putting in 146 hours in two weeks. We rolled the iSchedule system (actually two separate apps) -- composed of a web front-end and a system that reads email attachments sent from the BNSF/CSX into our database back-end -- into production on March 27th with much to-do! And...we got our bonus money...the full amount.
This past week was actually nice...fixing bugs, adding enhancements to the system and working a normal work week. Oh...and I actually played WoW again for the first time in nearly two months the other night. Crazy, huh? :P
About three weeks ago, life was seemingly normal for me at work. Until, the boss came over to the little space I call "the cube" and addressed Skip (my buddy and fellow outcast-coder) with a proposal. A new business group at EMSI (we'll call them HSD) had acquired some new business -- namely BNSF and CSX Railroads -- with a system that would revolutionize the way that drug and alcohol testing was conducted for their employees. A system that would merge scheduling those tests with the actual lab results. Needless to say, one system existed and the other system needed to be built. So, Skip and I were charged with the effort which I had estimated would take approximately 150 man-hours to complete (that's a little over three weeks). We were given two options: a) Get it to test in two weeks = $500 bonus; OR b) Get it to production in two weeks = $1k bonus.
After working through spring break, planned vacation time and putting in 146 hours in two weeks. We rolled the iSchedule system (actually two separate apps) -- composed of a web front-end and a system that reads email attachments sent from the BNSF/CSX into our database back-end -- into production on March 27th with much to-do! And...we got our bonus money...the full amount.
This past week was actually nice...fixing bugs, adding enhancements to the system and working a normal work week. Oh...and I actually played WoW again for the first time in nearly two months the other night. Crazy, huh? :P
1 Comments:
Great for you buddy. I've actually cancelled WoW and moved over to UO. With the eventuality of the first WoW expansion, and family there was no way I could keep up, and my addiction had grown to epic proportions; sooooo, without any further ado, I quit cold turkey and actually cancelled my subscription.
As for my work, no bonuses here, but I do have orders to stay here in sunny Hawaii for another 3+ years on the USS Olympia.
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