Rockin’ good time

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

It’s Monday, it’s not even 10 o’clock in the morning and already I’ve got people whining and bitching. The best part, you set a database to do a certain thing, have it that way for years, get everyone used to it working that way, and then, after all this time, a VP decides that’s not the way he wants it, and I get to ‘splain to him why he really does want it that way, but he doesn’t listen and walks away moaning about our horrible database system and how he would replace it if he could.

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