13.05.2003
VBScript vs Perl
Last week was as bad as I thought it was going to be. Monday ended up starting at 07:00, ending at 00:30 on Tuesday. Got back into work for 07:00 on Tuesday then went through under 01:30 on Wednesday morning.
My main complaint about all of that was simply I shouldn’t have to do it - myself and my other two cohorts (who worked similiar) hours were supporting remotely (via dialin 
) a simple implementation of a Windows 2000 server and some ris’d workstations. Nothing major, nothing hard.
But, of course, in this day and age, nothing is ever that simple. Our company outsources the actual implementation to another arm of our company who decides this is a bit big and so outsources it to a complete third-party.
The third-party gets pretty happy when they work out that “all problems not resolved can be escalated back to”, you guessed it, us.
Now, of course, my company didn’t think this would happen…why not? Who knows? So they didn’t have anyone planned for this support - 3-5 sites a night, hours on the phone/mobile solving really basic problems.
So it came down to the team I work in and we have ended up in a very shitty position. One of the other two is currently onsite because the project team decided they liked even more hand-holding than before and my management have no spine
Now, what was I acutally going to talk about? Oh yeah, perl and vbscript.
Hmmm, well after that vent, maybe not tonight. Suffice to say that vbscript sucks and perl is good 