{"id":8,"date":"2001-10-30T15:14:26","date_gmt":"2001-10-30T20:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/deadlock_victim"},"modified":"2001-10-30T15:14:26","modified_gmt":"2001-10-30T20:14:26","slug":"deadlock_victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2001\/10\/deadlock_victim.html","title":{"rendered":"Deadlock Victim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nYeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably
\nanother hour after lunch too… I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen
\nminutes of real, actual, work. – Peter Gibbons, “Office Space”\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nI had an interesting conversation with Mike<\/a> the other day about billable
\nhours. Lawyers at his firm bill in increments of
\n0.1 hours. That forces him to be highly conscious of his time.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo I thought it would be interesting to try recording what I did in a day at work. Just as
\nan experiment.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe results were less than inspiring. Once I subtracted lunch, websurfing, non-work related
\nemails, walks around the building, and office chit-chat, I discovered that I had worked for
\na whopping 4.2 hours. Now I’d had a vague feeling for a while that I haven’t been working
\ntoo hard lately, but to see it in such a cold, quantitative form was very unsettling.\n<\/p>\n

\nMy Tuesday night poker buddies put this into perspective. Justin is a UI team manager for
\nEbay. “You know, Evan,” Justin said, “when I was a consultant, I worked about fifteen
\nminutes a day. I just worked at home, swam in the pool, and answered a few emails. For
\nabout a year. But now that I’m a manager… I have no time for chit-chat. I do at least
\n12 hours of real work a day. No goofing off at all.”\n<\/p>\n

\nAha! So the lesson here is, don’t goof off too much, or they just might turn you into a
\nmanager, and God help you then.\n<\/p>\n

\nSo I shall endeavor to do better. In the meantime, let me leave you with this error
\nmessage that I received today from Sun’s internal bug tracking tool (edited slightly
\nto remove uninformative numbers and process IDs):\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nSQL Server error: Your server command was deadlocked with another
\nprocess and has been chosen as deadlock victim. Re-run your command.<\/CODE>\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n“Deadlock victim”. I love it. As far as I can tell, this means: I submitted
\na command. Some chump elsewhere in the company submitted a command at about
\nthe same time. And the other guy’s process totally kicked my process’s ass.
\nThat if nothing else tells me that I need to shape up, and fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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