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Post #371,949

2/28/13 10:20:15 AM

Got out just ahead of that

I was working for a company that did mortgage paperwork. We picked up Ameriquest's appraisal business, more than doubling our income. (I think it was more like tripling. It was a lot.)

I left the company soon after. Now they're not doing so well. C'est la vie.

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Drew

Post #371,961

2/28/13 1:24:56 PM

2/28/13 1:38:47 PM

I was tossed out about 2 years before the peak

The 1st year the windows centric project manager tried to replace Oracle/Perl/dozens of linux box parallel processing and my hand picked project successor that I had been training and then working with for years, and gave it to a Windows buddy who attempted to rewrite it for a SQL Server/VB environment with a variety of reporting tools tacked on.

It had taken me 6 months to sell/plan it, once sold: 3 months to create the infrastructure (buy big solaris/little linux boxes, Gbit/FC/large disk), while coding dozens of variations of possible production methods using Perl and Oracle and SyncSort and (whatever), created a full month's worth of processing and then optimized it down to a week, threw a chair at my boss when he told me to work SMARTER (thanks towelboy), and then babysat it for 2 month's of productions, then trained my mentee and moved onto my next project, occasionally being called in for design/code meeting for addons.

It ran for 3 YEARS and was the largest amount of profit that company had ever seen, at the cost of 20% of a perl/unix programmer and 50% of a clerical assistant/production person. Paid for the lights and rent and a lot of celebrations (of which I was not part of).

It took him about a year before he turned it on. In that process he alienated the current staff on purpose, most left and/or were fired, and there were multiple failed monthly productions, in which the company had to write checks to ameriquest in the $300,000 range.

After he claimed it was all my system's fault, and then turned his on, they lost the account within a couple of months and destroyed the database division of the company.

Poof.

Edited by crazy Feb. 28, 2013, 01:38:47 PM EST

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Kwak: How Excel blew up the London Whale. - (Another Scott) - (39) - Feb. 10, 2013, 01:01:56 PM EST

Not surprised ... and yes, I worked at a bank -NT - (drook) - Feb. 10, 2013, 01:22:03 PM EST

No boggle at all - (crazy) - (5) - Feb. 27, 2013, 04:33:34 PM EST

The scale is the boggle. - (Another Scott) - (4) - Feb. 27, 2013, 08:30:23 PM EST

nah, largest phone company in the US - (boxley) - Feb. 27, 2013, 09:13:40 PM EST

Pocket change - (crazy) - (2) - Feb. 28, 2013, 06:56:42 AM EST

Got out just ahead of that - (drook) - (1) - Feb. 28, 2013, 10:20:15 AM EST

I was tossed out about 2 years before the peak - (crazy) - Feb. 28, 2013, 01:38:47 PM EST

Excel error blows up the world. - (Another Scott) - (27) - April 16, 2013, 09:50:51 PM EDT

interesting - (boxley) - (25) - April 17, 2013, 10:07:46 AM EDT

Meh. - (Another Scott) - (15) - April 17, 2013, 12:28:05 PM EDT

they do go bankrupt when the debt service is 90% of their - (boxley) - (14) - April 17, 2013, 12:31:05 PM EDT

And where has that happened? -NT - (Another Scott) - (13) - April 17, 2013, 01:16:39 PM EDT

Re: And where has that happened? - (boxley) - (12) - April 17, 2013, 01:28:31 PM EDT

US cities control own currencies? -NT - (Another Scott) - (11) - April 17, 2013, 03:42:37 PM EDT

Of course... in "Bocksley-nation" -NT - (folkert) - (4) - April 17, 2013, 03:53:29 PM EDT

boxleystan - (crazy) - (3) - April 17, 2013, 03:59:52 PM EDT

My favorite stan is musial. -NT - (mmoffitt) - April 17, 2013, 04:23:33 PM EDT

Snrk. -NT - (malraux) - April 17, 2013, 05:57:10 PM EDT

hemenahemanahemana - (boxley) - April 17, 2013, 06:05:16 PM EDT

weimar ring a bell? -NT - (boxley) - (5) - April 17, 2013, 04:33:48 PM EDT

Let me know when you have a $1,000,000 bill. -NT - (Another Scott) - (4) - April 17, 2013, 04:56:30 PM EDT

have to wait till I get home where I have a color printer -NT - (boxley) - (3) - April 17, 2013, 05:09:34 PM EDT

they have them in kentucky - (boxley) - (2) - April 17, 2013, 05:23:08 PM EDT

Heh. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - April 17, 2013, 07:45:33 PM EDT

NC -NT - (crazy) - April 17, 2013, 09:28:44 PM EDT

Felix: Chart of the day - Reverse Causality Edition - (Another Scott) - (8) - April 18, 2013, 12:05:32 AM EDT

It won't matter - (crazy) - (3) - April 18, 2013, 07:17:39 AM EDT

Re: It won't matter - (folkert) - (2) - April 18, 2013, 09:19:11 AM EDT

Uh huh... - (hnick) - (1) - April 18, 2013, 09:55:30 AM EDT

haha... - (folkert) - April 18, 2013, 10:48:09 AM EDT

Finally: The explanation is found. - (Another Scott) - (3) - April 18, 2013, 09:20:10 PM EDT

And something I can understand! :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - April 19, 2013, 12:56:11 AM EDT

Beautiful comment - (drook) - (1) - April 19, 2013, 10:46:57 AM EDT

..which leads to Another: - (Ashton) - April 22, 2013, 03:10:51 PM EDT

Here's Thomas Herndon's paper, and the data files. - (Another Scott) - April 20, 2013, 06:20:31 AM EDT

it isn't an Excel problem - (lincoln) - (3) - April 23, 2013, 11:40:57 AM EDT

I think the point is - (jake123) - (2) - April 23, 2013, 06:36:46 PM EDT

Because it is taken for Golden... - (folkert) - (1) - April 23, 2013, 06:49:54 PM EDT

Any software can give you a polished turd - (lincoln) - April 24, 2013, 11:16:04 AM EDT

There aren't many trolls in North Korea, either.
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