Ok, so I get into work this morning and discover just the single best thing in the world (i'm not sure how to articulate heavy sarcasm using the written word, but thats what this is).
Anyway, a bit of background. for about 4 months I was working on a project to link an old bespoke billing system in with SAP. It sucked. The old system was a DOS wonder and by far the least useable software I've ever set eyes on (just as an idea, Ctrl-F5 was Copy, Alt-i was paste !?!?!?!!!!!) it was horrible. But I battled onwards and finally got something like the results they wanted. So now people can use the old system and each night an extract runs to update SAP.

So what do I discover today? That there is a separate project running to decommission the bespoke system entirely, and migrate it into a totally different billing system. *sigh* 4 months of my time, completely wasted. Weekends at work, banging my head against this crippling 25 year-old system for NO REASON AT ALL because all along there was another plan to just decommission it. And the worst thing: when I was first given the project, my first question was "why don't we just decommission it, and migrate all the data to a new system which is better" ... AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ... its all too much sometimes.

- posted by Adam @ 11:18 am