Well, had an interesting day at work today and it lead to me thinking it’s time to move on. I’m currently working on a project and there has been discussion regarding the way to go in regards to an interim data solution while we intergrate a C# application to a java web service and it seemed there was general agreement on how we’d do it so all was good.

Fast forward to today and the dba for the oracle box running the web service came back on holidays and vetoed the interim solution (basically doing a truncate/insert on a table on the SQL2005 box from the Oracle box until we can get integrated) because we were so close to getting the web service….now take into account I’ve spent 4 days on the web service side and still can’t get my app to talk to the service due to the wsdl not adhereing to standards and we already have a template for the dts she’d need to use for doing things my way, along with the SQL query needed to pull the data out already since they give it to me as a csv on cd.

I decided I had had enough of her stonewalling and so went to my manager and upper manager, who had both previously agreed with my solution (along with telling me to get it done while she was on leave as she’d stonewall me when she got back), to find my upper manager blindside me with a complete 180 to say that getting the cd was fine. I expressed my displeasure over this but since I knew he’d already now made his decision I just left in frustration, rather than waste more time, and started work back on the web service integration.

I was then called into a meeting, some things were sorted (along with oracle dba claiming initially it would take her a week to do what I asked before admiting under my queries that it would actually only be half a day of work, which is still ridiculous, and the rest of the time would be for testing) and I kept quite about their comments regarding her when she’s not around. After she left I was kept behind and chastised for the way I acted but they still couldn’t see what my issues were or how they did anything wrong so I immeadiately left when that had finished, came back to my office and looked at Seek which opened my eyes to the options out there.

I found a couple of interesting looking jobs and called up the HR agencies about them in way of interest…the first one was up front and honest about the position and my chances at it but did have a couple of others that suited, few others were not bad either and the last one is already setting up an interview with a Sydney based firm that’s a fulltime position for about 20% more p.a. than I currently make so it seems there are some good opportunities out there and so it’s time to seriously consider a move and get my resume out there to see what happens.

Guess this is just my way of thinking and reminding myself that the bond between management and workers is often very tenuous but once there is a lack of trust or feeling you have the support of management when you push for something they wont then it becomes almost impossible to get it back or feel confident about taking a stand or pushing to acheive what they have asked for.