Showing posts with label My Jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Jobs. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Making a Leap

Last Friday, I submitted my resignation letter, and after being postponed by my manager (collaborated with my division manager), my manager finally has given up and wished me for the best.
I haven't met my division manager yet, the truth is I'm avoiding her.. ppsstttt...
Worrying that I'll change my mind because of her persuasion (with deadly force of course kekekek).
I even haven't told my successor to be about it. I'm afraid that she would tell her boss (definitely) and then her boss would tell Ibu and mbak Tini. *bakal mati kutu*

Now I feel a bit relieve but not fully, thanks to my manager who assured me that my exit interview will be done by Babeh SEF. Duhh I'll be dead for sure.
Cross my finger and pray so he will be very-very super duper busy after he gets back from Amrik.

The truth is, it was filled with mixed emotion and a lot of consideration before I took a step to my manager desk and informed him that I want to resign from this company. But I thought that this is it. This is the time to make a leap. Now that everything is falling into its place, my outstanding projects are closing down, my projects are never been this few, and also my marriage preparation is almost finish. The only bad timing is the damn crisis.

Soon, I'll be very busy with packing (lousy at it) and another typical moving stuff. My poor fiance will have a bad time (I guarantee it) in helping me packing my what-he-called-useless-garbage stuff. I love that stuff. Let it go :D

So if you want to donate boxes or give me tips on how to move to another country effectively, just shoot. I'll hear ya...

Monday, November 03, 2008

Got Irritated

I got irritated this morning. It's been quite a long time since I got irritated this easily. The reason is very simple, because the client, the sales director, was asking questions repeatedly and yet he didn't give us enough chances to answer those.
I hate that kind of people!!
I mean, what the point of asking, if you don't want to listen the answer???
Before asking, I think the questioner should be prepare that he/she must spend enough time to hear the answer or else just hold the question for yourself
Huh!
Bawel, brisik, nanya mulu, bolot, ngeyel....

Thursday, October 30, 2008

IT Jokes no 2

Yesterday I attended a PM Sharing meeting. It was an internal meeting held by our HR department so people like us (read: frustrated and desperate Project Managers) to share our 'fantastic' experience when implementing a project.

Anyway this story is belong to one attendee. He told us before implementing a project, he always, always checked all the client requests carefully point by point and reconfirmed them. Then, one upon a time, he won a project that one of the client request is 'moving data' (data bergerak). Well, since he is a BI (business intelligence) implementer the request is very common since BI always uses real time data not a static data. So he skipped it. It turned out 'data bergerak' means that the client really wants is to have a moving-animated data graphic. Glegaaarrrrrrr.....

All the audience were laughing at once, feeling poor for him while begging to God repeatedly "God, please never ever give me such client" at the same time ....

Friday, October 17, 2008

Nguping Kerjaan orang IT

I always always want to put my funny-hilarious experiences revolving around me. Well now. inspired by an email that is sent by my friend about random funny hilarious dialogue that happened in Jakarta (nguping jakarta) I finally can post this.

Kiri kanan?
Saat hendak mengcopy data dari USB ke server.
User bertanya, "Saya musti colok ke USB port sebelah kanan atau kiri? Ada bedanya ga?"
Jakarta, dialami oleh business analyst yang merasa bingung kenapa orang ini bisa punya 3 flash disk dan notebook.

Datang dong
Untuk mengecek suatu kondisi data, seorang developer mengirimkan query via untuk dijalankan pada database server MS-SQL.
IT Manager user menulis email yang isinya bersikeras agar developer tersebut datang dan menjalankan tugas itu sendiri dengan alasan mereka tidak memiliki expertise dibidang tersebut.
Jakarta, dibaca oleh anak buah manager tersebut yang buru-buru menulis email balasan bahwa hal itu sudah selesai dilakukan. (tinggal teken F5 gitu loh)

Duhh why me?
Code from existing program:
"If Left(stringvariable,3) = "ABCXXXXXX" then...."
Jakarta, dibaca oleh sekelompok programmer yang langsung merasa dirinya paling malang sedunia karena harus meneruskan kerjaan kyk gitu dan oleh seorang business analyst yang akhirnya merasa tak heran kalau projectnya sudah lewat 1 tahun tapi tidak kelar2.

Habis...
User aplikasi menelpon: "Aplikasinya ga bisa jalan non..."
Business analyst: "Loh kok bisa?" (panik mode on)
User aplikasi: "Hard disknya abis non..."
Jakarta, dialami oleh seorang business analyst yang tiba-tiba merasa bagaikan enci2 glodok.

Terlalu harafiah 1
User complain: "Mbak saya kok tidak bisa konek yah?"
Helpdesk: "Oh ya? coba bapak ping deh, caranya ketik ping papa india november golf XXX.XXX.X.X"
User: "Ga bisa mbak syntax error"
Helpdesk: "Masak sih? emangnya bapak ketik apa?"
User: "Papa India November Golf..."
Jakarta, diceritakan ke teman yang langsung tertawa terbahak2 sampai mengeluarkan airmata.

Terlalu harafiah 2
User: "Mbak kok ga bisa di klik ya tombolnya"
IT Vendor: "Oh bapak kurang pas tuh posisi mousenya, coba deh dinaikkan keatas sedikit"
User: (benar-benar mengangkat mousenya sampai melayang diudara)
Jakarta, dialami oleh application manager dan sales person yang berjuang keras menahan tawa agar client tidak tersinggung

Terlalu harafiah 3
Untuk menuntun user menjalankan sebuah query pada server, seorang bisnis analyst mengirimkan email berisi step by step procedure disertai gambar untuk memperjelas.
User complain: "error tuh" (setelah menjalankan sesuai step by step)
BA: "masak sih, error messagenya apa?
User: "can not konek to server XXX" (XXX, nama yang tertulis pada gambar yang terdapat dalam manual sebagai contoh)
Jakarta, dialami oleh BA yang langsung merasa terpukul karena manual yang dikirimkan tidak membantu malah menyulitkan.

Konek dong
IT Manager: "Mbak ini saya coba bikin ODBC kok ga bisa konek2 ya ke MS-SQL nya?"
Application Consultant: "Udah diinstal belum MS-SQL nya?"
IT Manager: "Belum, loh memang harus ya?"
Bandung, dialami oleh application consultant yang saat itu juga nyaris membenturkan kepala ke meja.

Quote of the day
Seorang admin mengeluhkan berkas2 yang tidak lengkap: "Duh nih orang goblok kok permanent!!"
Jakarta, didengar oleh sesama admin yang tidak sabar untuk segera mempraktekkan dan menyebarkan ke orang-orang

Diskriminasi Gender
User mengeluhkan ke manager vendor tentang anak buahnya: "Pak saya mo ganti tidak mo diajar sama mbak X lagi"
Manager Vendor: "Loh kenapa?"
User: "Galak.. mo minta yang lebih sabar"
Manager: "Oh ya sudah besok saya kirim mbak Y saja sebagai pengganti"
User: "Gak mo ah pak"
Manager: "Loh kenapa? Mbak Y sabar kok pak"
User: "Ga mo cewe ah pak"
Manager: "Loh alasannya??!!"
User: "Abis yang kemaren marah-marah mulu karena lagi M"
Jakarta, dialami oleh manager yang langsung tertawa terbahak2 sampe menguncangkan lingkungan sekitarnya.

Dimanakah letaknya 1
MIS sebuah end user menerima telpon dari user.
MIS: "Ohh kalo mbak mau ambil file dari server, coba klik Start Menu, pilih Run kemudian ketik \\nama server"
MIS: "Iya, ketik \\nama server"
MIS (sambil melongok ke laptop yang ada didepannya): "Itu loh tombol yang disamping kiri shift"
Jakarta, didengar oleh IT vendor yang kebetulan sedang ada disitu dan langsung tertawa prihatin.

Dimanakah letaknya 2
Salah satu contoh dalam sebuah training sosialisasi aplikasi baru adalah dengan cara mengetikkan "S0003~E0013" pada sebuah cell di Microsoft Excel.
Trainer: "Sudah semua?"
Salah satu peserta: "Belum Bu"
beberapa menit kemudian..
Trainer: "Sudah semua?"
Peserta yang sama: "Belum Bu"
beberapa menit lagi...
Trainer: "Sudah semua?"
Peserta yang masih sama: "Belum Bu"
Trainer: (dalam hati) "Lama bener ketik gitu doang???"
.....
Setelah ditelusuri ternyata orang tersebut (Area manager) masih sibuk mencari dimanakah letak huruf "S" didalam keyboard.
Semarang, dialami oleh sekumpulan area manager lainnya yang berniat mengumpulkan dana untuk les mengetik dan seorang trainer yang memilih kabur keluar ruangan sebelum membanting keyboard dan mencungkil huruf didalamnya satu persatu.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Types of Developer

Based on 6 years experience in custom development application there are 3 types of developer.

The first one is "It's very hard, needs a lot of time" type of developer. They will give you impression that everything you need to be build are impossible to do. In order to fulfill your demands, they must use all their skill or even learn a new very difficult skill. They are usually the type of developer hated by the Project Managers, business analysts or clients. Most of them are stupid, lazy or both. Their words can not be trusted. Do deduct 50 to 100 percent from the time they gave you and you will get the real time needed.

Type number two is "Can do it, piece of cake" type of developer. These type of developers usually are geeks. They love love love love to code. Full of optimism, too much optimism. Favorite among clients and business analysts. Their words can not be trusted either. Add 50 to 100 percent from the time they gave you then it's probably when the program will be done.

The last one is the rare one. This type is supposes to be the perfect one. Enthusiast but not take it for granted, smart, hard working, and most of all on time. The truth is, I never met with this type. I even doubt that they exist in this world. Because certainly, they did not exist in my world. Maybe in Googleplex........

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Frustrated!

Aaaarrggggghhhh.........
Frustrated. I hate lazy clients. Huh!

Monday, September 08, 2008

Restart......

Last Friday, one of my client asked me to go to their office to discuss about their accounting system which is implemented by the company I work for. Once I was there, I was told that the server was not connected to the network, and the MIS department was trying to restart the server.

After a while, I was informed that the server was still not connected to the network, and the MIS guy suspected that the problem was within the server it self and asked me to call the installation guy to help them.

Panic mode on. Since the application was already "go-live", I am frantically sent email and start calling everybody I know to ask for support, saying that "out of the blue the server went down".

The reply was quite simple, they asked, "Since when the server displayed the blue screen" Gubrakk.....Haiyo...there is no monitor connected directly to the server, how could I know whether the server was displaying blue screen or not. I said out of the blue not blue screen. Jeez.

Kontak sana kontak sini, tanya sana tanya sini, ijin sana ijin sini, dilempar sana dilempar sini.....
Giving up. I told them (our support/installation guy and client IT guy) to do the communication by themselves.

At 3 PM I was informed that the installation guy would come to check and then it was cancelled saying the problem could be from the hardware not the software.

At 5.30 PM the hardware guy called and told me that he was going to go to my client on monday with me.

I came home, not happy.

This morning, I came with the hardware guy, he "colok" cable from the server to his laptop, and he said, "whoa the o/s is not started" and restarted the server once again.
The problem solved.

Jengkel!
  1. Kenapa sih ga diijinin aja installation guy buat dateng aja dari kemaren liat bentar ketauan O/S nya missing file, restart ulang, beres kelar.
  2. Gimana sih orang IT kok restart server kagak ditungguin sampe bener2, ngomongnya udah2 padahal boot failure.
What a waste of time and money (my money!!!). Gggrrrrr....

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The Three Golden Reasons

If anybody asks me the reason for me to get up every morning and go to work, i would simply answer it with the three golden reasons

1. Jalan-jalan alias ngabur ke mall terdekat. * At some point, we have to face the certain reality: despite all the good the world seems to offer, true happiness can only be found in one thing. SHOPPING!*
2. Ngeceng
3. Nggossip

sadly, golden reason number two is not feasible option *musti encourage HRD to believe that looks does matter. Motorola banget deh!*

even more sad, lately, golden reason number 1 becoming more difficult *with clients constantly yapping in my ear, how am i supposed to shop? hiks*

so, satu-satunya hiburan ya apalagi selain the ultimate reason: GOSSSSSIIIIIIIP!
beda dengan infotainment yang ada di televisi dimana acara gosip ditayangkan agak sore, for me hampir tiap pagi, setiap sarapan tiada hari tanpa gossip. makin digosok makin sip!
and of course tidak ketinggalan adanya breaking news disela-sela waktu kantor.

topiknya beragam, mulai dari seleb kantor *dari yang aneh, judes, cantik, gatel, jijay, bossy, oon, rese, SKSD, pelit, semua ada disini. full collection!*, para clients dengan sejuta tingkahnya * idem, mulai dari aneh sampe pelit, still full collection!* sampe personal gossip!

walau mungkin orang yang baca akan bilang, ah typical cewe... bisanya cuma gosiip truuusss.. but i really enjoy the first 30 minutes of my day at office.
with gossip:
- i know that i am not alone, everybody have their own problems and it is real *bukannya cerita soal temennya iparnya adeknya bokap gue punya sodara, jauh kaliiiii.* and it makes me stronger *misery loves company*
- i know how strong my friends are *so proud of them*
- i learn simple wisdom from each other *ga perlu baca buku the secret :P*.

so, if one day.. i have to leave this company for any reason *hopefully a good one*, i always know that i will miss this moment the most...

- moved from my friendster blog, 30/07/2007-

Sunday, February 04, 2007

duuuh.. i can not live in a village!

Hari kedua.......

Pagi pagi udah
bangun loh... tapi seperti biasa pluk bobo lagi abis ngantuk sih.... finally i
can sleep better walau sempat ketakutan karena semalem ujannya deresssss
banget....bukannya apa-apa sih.. takut longsor bok. gue berusaha menyakinkan
diri sendiri bahwa gue ditengah hutan hujan tropis yang notabene byk pohon
dengan berbagai macam akar, yang salah satunya pasti ada yang punya akar
tunjang untuk mencegah longsor.
** biologi gue bagus

kan

masih bisa ingat akar tunjang, my
teacher will be so proud of me hehe **

btw yang disebut pagi itu buat gue adalah 6:45 :P. pas
keluar kamar eeee clientku malah dah rapi mo pergi.. ** jadi malu ** tapi gpp
deh

kan

gue
tidur lebih malam dari dia ** ntn film sih **. sikat gigi, cuci muka trus mandi
deh.. dandan bentar ** dihutan
ngapain dandan, dasar cewe ** trus makan hmmm.... abis makan trus pergi deh ke
warehousenya buat mulai kerja.

duuh ternyata
policy disini ketat banget, ga bole pake sambungan segitiga, bolehnya pake jack
segitiga langsung dari kabelnya jadi musti minjem ama orang nih. terpaksa deh
keluar dari warehouse ke gedung sebelah. tiba tiba si om bilang awas kupu.....
ya ampun mak jaaaannnn.... yang gue kira daun kering itu ternyata kupu kupu
gajaah yang sedang terkulai lemah di lantai ** once again, betapa bagus biologi
gue, bisa mengkategorikan si kupu sebagai kupu gajah berdasarkan bentuk sungut dan
bodynya yang giant **

tau dong kalo yang namanya ariyani itu takut banget ama yang
namanya kupu-kupu. ** As my defense, nicole kidman juga takut kok, so people
let it go! Stop saying “kenapa sih
takut ama kupu kupu? Kupu kupu kan lucu” (baca dengan nada sinis ala me) kupu2
is not lucu!
It’s ugly and scary and should go extinct along with
dinosaurs. It would be better if more insect went along too (cockroach, spider,
praying mantis) and don’t forget to throw in snake, crocodile and shark. (this
time read with staccato tone) ** The story continue.. jadi teriaklah gue sambil
ambil langkah ga tau berapa ribu meninggalkan si om yang terkaget-kaget ** kenapa
nih ce tiba tiba histeris?? **

singkat cerita, sampe juga ke gedung sebelah dan dapat
kabel, which mean i have to go back ke warehouse ngelewatin kupu kupu lagi...
hikkkkksssss T _ T. untungnya karena dah tau jadi dah ancang-ancang pas dah
dekat langsung lari dan buka pintu.. stage clear!

kerja dan kerja ** chatting sih padahal, frustasi ama
actuate sih! ** tiba juga jam makan siang, keluar dari warehouse lagi
ngelewatin kupu lagi yang sudah disepak ama om by my request ** thank you, om
** .

kenyaang... makanannya enak glegh..kerja lagi dong sampe
akhirnya jam 5 dan diajakin balik ke mess. di pintu kok kupunya pindah posisi..
kirain dah mati kok bisa pindah posisi.. mulai curiga deh. ya ampun belum titik
toh, masih koma tuh kupu-kupunya alias sekarat ** sayapnya ke angkat sebelah
**.... histeris lagi, lari lagi eeeeee ciiiiittt ngerem mendadak karena ada
belalang ijo, ngepot dikit, lari lagi, lah lah lahhh ada kecoak gendut yang udah
terbalik kyaaaaa..... ** once again meninggalkan si om yang keheranan **

sampe di mess diajakin liat danau buatan. ceritanya nih
bekas galian tambang emas yang dah ditutup trus dikasih air buat penghijauan kembali **
lumutan kali airnya jadinya penghijoan bukan pembiruan (garing) **. aniwei jalan kesananya asik tuh.... gue byk
take picture pemandangannya ** http://www.flickr.com/photos/bohemian11 **
jalanannya menurun jadi tidak capek plus diiringi suara monyet
teriak-teriak..nguk nguk nguk ** maksud lo?? **

sampe danau, agak kecewa sih karena danaunya ternyata
posisinya jaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuuuhh dan curam boook... jadi cuma bs ambil foto 1
dengan posisi yang aneh. pulang deh akhirnya. tau dong pepatah, dimana ada
turunan pasti ada tanjakan.. karena sepanjang jalan pergi itu turun, pulangnya
booooowww..senin kamis deh napasnya. ga tau gimana akhirnya bisa balik juga sampe
site, lagi ada pertandingan volley antar kampung ** kok bisa ya?

kan

antar kampungnya
jauh banget, segitu bela-belainnya.. **

sampe kamar, nyalain kompie upload foto, makan malam upload
lagi deh hehehe..
besok kerja lagi duh...tapi malem ini mo ntn amidol dulu
dong... could not, would not, should not miss simon cowell's comment..

Saturday, February 03, 2007

My Poor Ear

Hari ini gua akhirnya pergi juga ke hutan kalimantan, lokasi tepatnya disalah satu PT penambang emas di Balikpapan. Yang pergi kesana bukan cuma gue doang, tapi serombongan orang karena ternyata setiap senin dan jumat PT tersebut selalu mencarter pesawat imut buat membawa rombongan mereka ke site penambangan.

At first I was very excited. Jarang-jarang khan naek pesawat yang pilot and co-pilotnya bisa keliatan dari kursi penumpang :P. Pertama masuk, kita dah dibekali ama sumbat telinga karena takut berisik mendengar suara mesin dan baling-baling pesawat. Abis itu kita duduk manis pake seatbelt dikursi masing-masing.

Beberapa menit abis lepas landas, i was still excited, tapi lama-lama hutan belantara dan sungai yang berkelok2 ga tau berapa ratus kali itu menghipnotis gue alias ketiduran **abis capek banget ga bisa tidur di hotel sih**

20 minutes later, akhirnya gua kebangun dan melihat rawa-rawa yang besarnya duuuuuuh azubillah **swamp thing aja bisa nyasar kali** akhirnya pesawat mulai terbang merendah dan tiba tiba aja nggggggiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiingggggggg kuping gue sakit and sakitnya duuuuuh maaaaak minta ampun de. rasanya sampe dah mo pecah aja kepala gue. dan itu berlangsung mulai ketinggian sekitar 2000 sampai akhirnya mendarat dimana tambah turun tambah sakit....T _ T. gue sampe mikir waaaah mati deh gue, kalau gendang gue pecah bisa budeg gue.. tidaaaaaaaakkkk!!!!

akhirnya gue turun dari pesawat sampe mencengkram jaketnya si om karena agak lemes nahan sakit di kuping gue plus kepala yang ikutan nyut-nyutan dan terduduk lemas nungguin mobil jemputan yang untungnya dah datang jadi ga perlu nunggu lama lama. didalam mobil kuping gue masih berasa sakit and terutama jadi aneh kalo denger suara sendiri. seakan-akan ada speaker dalam kepala gue. jadi gue denger suara gue bergema di kepala gue. not a pleasant feeling!

akhirnya 1 jam an kemudian barulah kuping gue mulai membaik yang sayangnya berbanding terbalik dengan kondisi jalan yang tambah lama tambah grudak gruduk walau akhirnya kita sampe juga di lokasi dengan selamat dan tidak kekurangan apapun kecuali tekanan udara dalam kuping gue.

tempatnya disini ternyata asik juga, rumahnya rumah panggung rendah **dihutan sih** dan lantainya dilapisi parket kayu ** hmmm love it **. airnya juga disediakan air hangat dan dingin and walau airnya jernih tapi tak layak minum tuh katanya ** dun know why and dun want to know why **

so abis makan and ntn filmnya fantasia barrino, akhirnya siapin diri berbaring dikasur and hoping to get a good sleep since i dont have any in this week.