OK fairplay, in my head I had it as pushing them through the process without a chance to really consider what was best. My apologies
This Business and Moment...
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Nah, I 100% agree it's awful.I forgot how depressing job applications were. Maybe I'm expecting too much out of myself.
Ah good luck dude! What's the role?
******* mortgage advisor rant. Specifically French one in this case. The utter bell started saying our equity in our almost paid off apartment, and our 20k cash pot we had would suffice as a deposit for the new place. Said no issues at all. The months pass, we are like...so? He's like you need more liquid cash, how much more have you saved? Luckily we had been saving, so had more than that but he never mentioned this, at all. Now he called us on Sat to say that we need 50k in liquid cash as a minimum... ideally 65k. Erm, that's a nice 45k jump from our initial convo where you said it'll be fine you ******* moron.
Luckily I can release a bit from my pension, we have it in Switzerland where you can you a % against a property purchase, so trying to get that which will see us over 50k, but then if they want 65k we'll have to sell the apartment. This isn't a problem, but it's the speed of turnaround on it, when it was never something that was mentioned 3 months ago. He's driving us mental.
Rant over.
Luckily I can release a bit from my pension, we have it in Switzerland where you can you a % against a property purchase, so trying to get that which will see us over 50k, but then if they want 65k we'll have to sell the apartment. This isn't a problem, but it's the speed of turnaround on it, when it was never something that was mentioned 3 months ago. He's driving us mental.
Rant over.
Ha Love people like that...
Good job they aren't there tbh but not good it cost you a **** ton!
See here!
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/posts/32700466/
Same village we're in now, big renovation project.
I reckon we should be able to get to 50k, but 65k might stretch us as we can't exactly quickly flog our apartment. I'm sure we'll work it out though... we've beaten all these things so far, hoping this'll do the job!
Yea, good old France. We have one bit of access around the back which we have access rights to, but it's not technically part of the property, it's a weird shared ownership thing. We don't require that though, and our main access is at the front, which is on a small road so it's all good... touchwood. Dealing with the French systems is great fun. Fun like, nailing your own ballsack to the table.
Mortgage applications sent off again... hopefully works this time ffffffffs!
**** me sideways, I'm managing 4 different offshore teams at the moment. One in Egypt, one in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and one in India. JEEEEESUS this is culturally a pain in my arse. It's actually painful trying to get them to communicate effectively and raise issues or questions when they have them. Not go off doing something completely wrong, because they can't work out what to do. Having most issues with India, I can manage the Egyptian team and the B&H team I think need to be better planners and managing the tickets, but will ask qs when then come up.
Huge reorg announced where I am contracting in IT. Which is great, the place is due a shake up. People scared about losing their jobs, I think it's a good thing though and I know this role will go, but it's a stupid role in this current structure anyway. A very good friend of mine has been made Exec Dir of Engineering now, so I'm hoping I can wangle a decent role in the new structure. If there is a product manager role going I'd be all up for that, it's what I do outside of work anyway, and it's also what this friend of mine knows. Will see if I can get something like that, if so I'd prob take perm for it.
Just had a message from the Cheezus developer telling me he can't do the wine / drinks recommendations side. I was like, oh? Too hard? It's the same as the food pairings though? Nope, religious reasons. Dammit. I'm trying to find workarounds so I don't have to pay someone else to do it on top of this lol
To add to this the SaveNode wallet is still not with me. I was told, after the initial 60hrs went by, we're now at like 6 weeks. Last tuesday was supposed to be handover day. Now, I've been chasing delivery for the last 3 days and they're avoiding answering ffs.
To add to this the SaveNode wallet is still not with me. I was told, after the initial 60hrs went by, we're now at like 6 weeks. Last tuesday was supposed to be handover day. Now, I've been chasing delivery for the last 3 days and they're avoiding answering ffs.
Search results page all done, just waiting for the API to be ready after new cli tool written to update data. Couple more things app wise and we're nearly over the line... come on!
What do you do? Anything we can do to try and help?
Well done @Jony27 !
FML. Honestly. F.M.L.
Got our APK delivered this morning for the SaveNode wallet... as promised. What's it like? ****. They were supposed to take an existing wallet, called the BRD, or bread wallet and add our coin specs in there. What they did was remake the wallet, tried to make it look like BRD (badly) and none of the features work at all. To the point where you can't even load settings, it's just an image ffs!! Are you kidding me?
It's not even that instructions weren't clear, they were clear as ******* day. This was the Indian lot. I am going to get a refund and sack them off, there is literally no way they can make what they've made work. I made a list of all the things that don't work. 15 things on the first run through. All core functionality. I've lost 8 weeks in this ****. 8 ******* weeks. All the while the community holds me responsible for not delivering.
I have another guy looking at it at the moment. I'm going to see what he can do. He seems much more switched on and with it than the others, we will see... UGH!!
Plus sides, Ermin from Bosnia is doing well. Needs a bit of a hand with understanding our elastic search queries but his code is decent. He's coming on well, and our backend referral system is nearly there too. Happy on the VolAir side of things.
Also happy with the Egyptian dude working on Cheezus, he's plodding on and said I'll have a demo shortly to play with in Alpha.
I need a coffee and a sit down. ha
Got our APK delivered this morning for the SaveNode wallet... as promised. What's it like? ****. They were supposed to take an existing wallet, called the BRD, or bread wallet and add our coin specs in there. What they did was remake the wallet, tried to make it look like BRD (badly) and none of the features work at all. To the point where you can't even load settings, it's just an image ffs!! Are you kidding me?
It's not even that instructions weren't clear, they were clear as ******* day. This was the Indian lot. I am going to get a refund and sack them off, there is literally no way they can make what they've made work. I made a list of all the things that don't work. 15 things on the first run through. All core functionality. I've lost 8 weeks in this ****. 8 ******* weeks. All the while the community holds me responsible for not delivering.
I have another guy looking at it at the moment. I'm going to see what he can do. He seems much more switched on and with it than the others, we will see... UGH!!
Plus sides, Ermin from Bosnia is doing well. Needs a bit of a hand with understanding our elastic search queries but his code is decent. He's coming on well, and our backend referral system is nearly there too. Happy on the VolAir side of things.
Also happy with the Egyptian dude working on Cheezus, he's plodding on and said I'll have a demo shortly to play with in Alpha.
I need a coffee and a sit down. ha
This is 100% it. Like, couldn't agree more. The amount of times I stated we're here for questions. They say they understand, and go off and do something wrong, then say it's all fine. Until the point you see it and they're like, oh, we will fix it... and go off randomly smacking moles not having a ******* clue what they're doing. Culturally they can't just say, no, I don't get this, can you tell me what you mean? They just go off "doing something" when it's all wrong.
These guys have said they're fixing it by today... lol which is funny because there is no way in hell they took 8 weeks to deliver the **** they did, which didn't work AT ALL. Yet, now they can turn around a whole rebuild in 24hrs? lol come on. Just proves the point you said; they don't want to admit they can't do it.
Well that was a nice break. First time in ages I went and had a real holiday. No emails or anything. Well, maybe replied to one thing in 8 days.
Now back to the grind and trying to a. catch up and b. smash some deadlines out.
So much crap going on at the moment, I really think work is the best place to lose myself.
While I was away though, I managed to chat to a load of waiters/resses about Cheezus, which was cool. A lot of interest which was even funnier. Also while I was away, the guy did the android front end side of things, so I downloaded the apk and off I went!
Yes, nothing is hooked up to the backend but all controls are there. He's built out all the tensorflow data modelling, so now it's hooking it all up together. First stop is cheese capture and recognition and info back. Then on from there.
SaveNode doing my nut in with developers. After they messed up so much, they came and nearly delivered what we asked for... although the creation of the SNO wallet errors and says failed ha and the ETH wallet is missing, which was there before and the manage wallets function seems to have vanished. Slowly getting there though for the first step. Kinda. I want this first bit out in the next 2 weeks or I'll lose my ****.
VolAir is going OK, but we hit a point where we realised the developer was blocked because of internal decisions. Essentially, it's when a user books a trip and how we send that data from the app to backend and back, and what that data is, and where it lives. Most of it is smart contract, but we don't need it all blockchain based. They're building a couple of APIs to handle it and it should be done this week and then it'll all coming together.
I started exploring our other partners within the luxury travel space and spoke with Soneva private island resorts today, they're interested in being a tier 2 partner, where they pay us 10% commission for each customer we send their way. Trying to hit some great partners so we have a network across all verticals of the sector.
Did a mockup for the member offerings page:
At the same time, we're due to update our whole site and going to get someone in the team to do it so thought I'd put it together...
Done a bit more now, but you get the start of it anyway... will try and get as much as possible finished by tomorrow so they can get started on it.
I've been offered a unique experience for our customers to attend the Monaco Yacht Show in Sept as well, it's a full VIP 4 day event with private jet flight there, 5 star accommodation and VIP events all week... I just have to sell this to about 6 people at 12.5-15k a person
No biggie.
Oh, and there is a huge reorganisation at work, which will mean my job goes. I won't have it soon. So, pressure on getting some **** to work, but at the same time I'm a gambling man, but I also like to play my odds. They're moving to a product line based org structure, which is great for me as I'm essentially a product manager outside of my contract. Luckily a very good friend of mine has been made the Exec Dir or Engineering, and doing a lot of the work on the restructure. I'm hoping to get involved a lot on the Basel side. Play the visibility card, get seen and grab the product line manager role I want! Or just lose my job haha
Now back to the grind and trying to a. catch up and b. smash some deadlines out.
So much crap going on at the moment, I really think work is the best place to lose myself.
While I was away though, I managed to chat to a load of waiters/resses about Cheezus, which was cool. A lot of interest which was even funnier. Also while I was away, the guy did the android front end side of things, so I downloaded the apk and off I went!
SaveNode doing my nut in with developers. After they messed up so much, they came and nearly delivered what we asked for... although the creation of the SNO wallet errors and says failed ha and the ETH wallet is missing, which was there before and the manage wallets function seems to have vanished. Slowly getting there though for the first step. Kinda. I want this first bit out in the next 2 weeks or I'll lose my ****.
VolAir is going OK, but we hit a point where we realised the developer was blocked because of internal decisions. Essentially, it's when a user books a trip and how we send that data from the app to backend and back, and what that data is, and where it lives. Most of it is smart contract, but we don't need it all blockchain based. They're building a couple of APIs to handle it and it should be done this week and then it'll all coming together.
I started exploring our other partners within the luxury travel space and spoke with Soneva private island resorts today, they're interested in being a tier 2 partner, where they pay us 10% commission for each customer we send their way. Trying to hit some great partners so we have a network across all verticals of the sector.
Did a mockup for the member offerings page:
At the same time, we're due to update our whole site and going to get someone in the team to do it so thought I'd put it together...
I've been offered a unique experience for our customers to attend the Monaco Yacht Show in Sept as well, it's a full VIP 4 day event with private jet flight there, 5 star accommodation and VIP events all week... I just have to sell this to about 6 people at 12.5-15k a person
No biggie.Oh, and there is a huge reorganisation at work, which will mean my job goes. I won't have it soon. So, pressure on getting some **** to work, but at the same time I'm a gambling man, but I also like to play my odds. They're moving to a product line based org structure, which is great for me as I'm essentially a product manager outside of my contract. Luckily a very good friend of mine has been made the Exec Dir or Engineering, and doing a lot of the work on the restructure. I'm hoping to get involved a lot on the Basel side. Play the visibility card, get seen and grab the product line manager role I want! Or just lose my job haha
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Congrats all! Great stuff going round!
I just spent all morning having full on arguments with developers. One threatened to ruin my life and sell my code on the blackmarket, so that's a bonus.
I just spent all morning having full on arguments with developers. One threatened to ruin my life and sell my code on the blackmarket, so that's a bonus.
Agreed.