Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

bleeeeeeh..... my phone crashed while I as asleep... and so I overslept by like 2.5 hours :(

"Hey guys... can we like avoid repeating the clusterfuck that is our elventeen billion.. AWS accounts when we start moving over to Azure by having like sensible, enforceable, already in place multi-tenant plan before everyone starts moving things over? Look we can even set up things with Azure Policy to avoid cost over runs and dumb things from happening.."

"NOPE SORRY ALREADY HAVE LIKE 10 DEV ACCOUNTS PAID FOR WITH CORP CREDIT CARDS OR PERSONAL CARDS THEN EXPENSED AND SOME RANDOM ASS DEV IS THE ROOT POLICY MANAGER BECAUSE WE ALL PIGGY BACKED OUR PROD STUFF ON HIS ACCOUNT! FUCK YEAH! PLUS LIKE THAT WOULD TAKE SOME C-LEVEL PERSON DOING MORE THAN SAYING 'HEY GUYS WE AZURE SHOP NOW FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THERE LIKE WHENEVER YOU WANT!!"

Oh and nobody is bothering to put anything into CloudHealth even though it is requirement... and IT hasn't even set up CloudHealth integration yet... because they own it... well.. it is busted as fuck!

Oh.. oh and you are the first ops team to ask for access and we have like no account creation policy in place or anything how people are supposed to request access.. so it has been bounced around a week and my team still has no accounts...
But hey... we have to have one of the services we support spun up and running in Azure by the end of June to meet our enterprise contract reqs with M$ :D :D :D

I'm sure this will go great and totally not turn into a huge cost overrun clusterfuck.

So apparently I'm Terraforming all the things...

because they used CloudFormation before and now we are being forced to support services in Azure and various engineering teams would like to shift things to Terraform because we can use it for containerized things in both public clouds..

Look.. this feels wrong, since we do Storm Dragons do Terraforming?! I guess Hurricanes or Cyclones could count...

A dragon, most of the time, that decided the universe was too big for just one of her to exist. Except not all of them agreed on what to be. So some are dragons, some are von numen probes, some are overly friendly almost smatter and one is 100% reality warping trouble.

LOL and then I took down a service because I was following the docs provided for deployment..

Only for some reason Step 2 should have been the last step. :X So I took down the live ECS cluster before I sparked up the new cluster. :D

In summary.. FUCK HR.. I'm working for one month at 15% lower than what I should be because they could not be assed to do their jobs in timely fashion.

So yesterday I got had a sit down with my soon to be manager and his boss because HR fucked up my transition massively.

At this point I've been on my new team for a week doing training stuff and taking on deployments and stuff but now my pay raise, position title change and reporting structure doesn't become office until June 1st. No back pay.. why? HR forgot about me then the person managing all that for my new org quit.. and two weeks before my transition date a new person was hired who knew nothing about and thus was shocked when hiring manager for my new role was like "So Sam starts in two weeks, are we good with everything for this transfer and role change?"

Background:
In our cloud ops we have two separate organizations that break down into various teams.
Infrastructure Ops which primary deals with physical stuff, our private cloud side and Product Ops which primarily deals with our Public Cloud stuff.

So on May 6th I transferred from Ops-Eng (combination of NOC, traditional datacenter ops/site ops and sys-admin) on the Infra-Ops side to ProductOps (AWS mircoservices architecture team now also soon to be supporting Azure as well..)

The ProductOps manager filed all my transition paperwork with HR back in Feb of this year, a week before my new team leader approached me to gauge my interest in moving teams. (I'd been one of the original founding members of Ops-Eng, Lead Engineer on it for almost two years and plateaued pretty hard in terms of advancement without changing teams but because I worked 2nd shift and most of Infra-Ops was on the east coast while I was on the West Coast it made getting experience with other teams I could potentially move to all but impossible)

Obviously I said yes because moving into an SRE role is pretty much the only path of advancement left unless I wanted to move into a management role. (Honestly, I like getting work done.. not sitting through meetings)

So things become official in the since that my transfer is happening but we don't have a date yet because backfills neat to happen and HR/Finance still have to approve everything and Ops-Eng has to find someone to work 2nd shift etc. This happens at the beginning of April.

Mid-April we have worked out deadlines for everything (so I stop taking on projects, focus on wrapping up everything I'm working on in order for me to start new role on May 6th).

So May 6th roles around. I show up in the office (gasp from local ops guys because I wfh a lot while on Ops-Eng because my entire team was remote. I sit with my new team)

And nothing from HR.

A week passes.. nothing from HR.

Yesterday I went to request some pto to find I can't.. because I have no supervisor to approve it in our tracking system.

so we contact HR and surprise they still haven't finished filing my anything.

Despite pressure from my former boss (who is waiting on a backfill req to be approved for me.. a week after I left his team) and my current team leader and his manager.
..
Finally HR relents and files everything to become official but because Wed is payday.. guess what.. the earliest my promotion etc becomes official is June 1st and no finance will not let them back date it or back pay me.

Bleh... just starting to wrap my head around AWS and get comfortable with admin tasks in it and now it is time to pick up Azure... because M$ is courting out execs.. and one of the dev teams my new team supports got a mandate to refactor and deploy their new service in Azure by the end of July.

Bleh... so far.. there is one thing I like about Azure. Both the training portal and actual portal have DARK MODE. AMAZON PLEASE DO THIS I"M SICK OF WHITE AND ORANGE-YELLOW!

This is missing the part were I got frustrated and tried to explain things like containers, cloudformation, terraform, terragrunt and various other template and management/deployment tools and she concluded they were basically "Spells"

Please note.. it is not like my mom is dumb.. she was very much the opposite of that with a Ph.D in nursing and 40 years of experience during emergency medicine, family practice, pulmonology and pediatric oncology

It is just really hard to explain public cloud stuff to a lay person.. it might as well be fucking magic.

So... I went from a Server Sorcerer, Legacy Service Necromancer and Incident Inquisitor to.. Cloud Conjuration Witch.

My mom asked me to try to explain my new role.. and I struggled because explaining anything with public cloud space and Ops/DevOps to someone that does not have the technical background knowledge is basically impossible.

"So you write code?"
"Not that much.. I work with the people who write it to make sure it produces a stable, reliable, scalable and secure service/product."
"So.. you are QA?"
"No... I don't test their code... I cast spells on the internet to conjure up fake servers and networks for their code to live on that in turn only exist on another company's abstracted computing layer atop their physical hardware."
"So you are an internet witch..?"

- Actual conversation with my mom..

And it is official.. Now to set up eleventy billion AWS accounts... Fucking hell.

Bleh... what unholy hour is this? I think I am going to hate mondays again

Apparently it was so bad at 7:30am I forgot to hit enter.. lol

FREEDOM FROM THE OPS-ENG 2nd shift oncall...

but Monday I have to be up for a 8am meeting as a shiny new SRE :(

Huh... firefox thinks all my addons no longer are signed correctly on both my windows machines... and murdered them all... tried rolling back.. nope.. tried downloading new ones on a fresh install.. nope

waterfox is working okay though... and able to pull and install addons from addons.mozilla.org.. wtf.

OMG fucking gods... these lamb seekh kababs are amazing... with a red-brown hot curry gravy like sauce, carmelized onions and bellpeppers with some grilled lime slices.

Just spicy enough that my nose is a little wet.. and mmm.. great blend of spices, cilantro, ocassion chunk of fennel.. I'd take a photo but I kinda of devoured them..

Excellent job..Naan & Curry (The garlic naan and lamb kadai were also really tasty)

I'm becoming less and less enchanted with Safeway's delivery and pickup serivces.

Last delivery order had some really wierd substitutions.. like LET ME SUB 1.5lbs of meat for the 3.5-4.5lb pack you ordered.. on 3 different items (boneless porkchops, "country style" ribs and porkloin) literally ruining my meal plans for the evening and the next two days...

Today the pick up service mixed up half of my order with a person that drove off with their car half loaded so the dude scrambled to get all her stuff in after flagging her down at a stop sign. Somehow he loaded the dry goods totes with all the snack foods for our household on it. They were so busy I didn't really get a chance to check every thing until I got home and found a lot missing.

At least they are refunding us... but ugh... no tasty snack foods... and I really don't want to go in a safeway on friday afternoon... it is always hellicaously busy.

words and typos... missing words welp.. I'm sure that sorta makes sense.. mostly.