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Topic: Venting Venting

Syntax started this discussion 10 years ago #54,177

So like I end up with a tiny small mostly insignificant fixed price task for the State of California. A contract I entered into by request for and to help a Cal Gov telecom agency aka "California Public Utilities Commission."

I just burned up 100% of my allocated client billing time only to discover at the very end They have a system glitch Nor do they have a single person on staff who can correct it and I by law am not allowed to touch their system even though I have the super user password they provided me for this one simple task.

I could just walk away and see if they will sue me?

UPDATE - I said to self what the fuck and I want this to be an extra special GREAT Day - Albeit its again, Island Soupy super high humidity weather that only people like kook is equipped to survive.

So I just broke California State Laws and accessed the Data base that has the glitch that prevents me from solving a basic simple Math Problem that any 2nd year Calculus student could solve in 12 minutes or so by hand with a double check for correctness. Yikes a sting of 9's Wtf?

Hell I just called and talked to the top IT person in charge of the UNIX system and She looked and said to me - Oooooops why are all the digits 9's a string of 64 9's when the integer is limited to a max of 9 digits where the only integer not permitted is the NUMBER 9.

So as to continue to vent - She of course can correct the glitch AFTER a Three day Investigation to see how this occurred.

I on the other hand have run out of and way beyond any possible way to recover my lost hours on this simple project.

I took this minor project on as a favor to an Executive of a Cell provider to do a favor to the State of California who can not always afford what they need when they need it.

Problem to solve? Help an area not far from where Cathy lives that is out of bounds range for Cell service - A minor State office that does not have land line connect or even AC power other than what they generate on their own. Cell service is by happenstance when the weather is just right and the wind is not blowing and air density is best for 1200 MHz connect.

Steal some service where there is some money to be made and give it to State of Calif office where no money is made yet they provide a necessary service to help land creatures in the wilderness - So I will suck it up and think more highly of Mountain Goats n such in near future and find another way to fill my wallet with some cold hard cash State of Calif no can afford to pay me for the work preformed.

Rant over - will wait now and see if Butthole presses the report button or followed my advise and blocks my posts from his Butthole view.

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