I had a very tough day today. Right from the beginning, things did not look too good. But I think it’s going to turn out to be a very beneficial day for me in the long run.
I was very disappointed with Samir on Friday. I asked him to give me his best effort and try to make our QA environment working, but he barely even tried. Then he leaves at 5:30PM (and he started at 9:30). Today, he comes in at around 10AM. Of course, he did not complete he tasks. I told him straight out, it’s discouraging to see a lack of effort. It’s unacceptable, I told him. I want to spend his time on work-related stuff and development type work.
He did say that he’s going to try to work harder. It remains to be seen.
Then we released a new servers and things started to fail. At least it looked liked that. But because we made changes on the old servers, people at Citi could not log in. I had to take the servers offline. Then I made the changes to the properties file, but it looked like they did not take effect. Actually, they did, but the test script did not reflect that. It was very stressful. I was under a lot of pressure.
It’s a tough day. Tough day for Samir and also a tough day for me. I don’t like to scorn anybody. But I have to motivate him to do a better job. If not, I’ll just have to find somebody else.