I was in a position where I did not have resources for anything else. (Yes, ironic, given the dollar amounts I was handling. But then, welcome to "big business"...)
And, with the changing shit raining down from on high, as well as the need to adapt processes for my own sake and survival, it ended up being for the best, anyway.
Within a limited value of "best". In retrospect, better would have been, ultimately, to be working somewhere else. (Though for a time, the relative autonomy and one very decent direct manager were rather nice.)
Some of the improvement I provided was correcting the outputs of a longstanding legacy system that routinely borked a "random" subset of its data. People had ostensibly looked and been unable to correct this in the original code, and at the time management felt it had no budget to work on this further, at the mainframe level.
So, I guess.... to some extent, it's not the system, it's what you do with it! Old, big dollar legacy project fucked up, and we ended up fixing it on the PC. LOL's aplenty.
I was in a position where I did not have resources for anything else. (Yes, ironic, given the dollar amounts I was handling. But then, welcome to "big business"...)
And, with the changing shit raining down from on high, as well as the need to adapt processes for my own sake and survival, it ended up being for the best, anyway.
Within a limited value of "best". In retrospect, better would have been, ultimately, to be working somewhere else. (Though for a time, the relative autonomy and one very decent direct manager were rather nice.)
Some of the improvement I provided was correcting the outputs of a longstanding legacy system that routinely borked a "random" subset of its data. People had ostensibly looked and been unable to correct this in the original code, and at the time management felt it had no budget to work on this further, at the mainframe level.
So, I guess.... to some extent, it's not the system, it's what you do with it! Old, big dollar legacy project fucked up, and we ended up fixing it on the PC. LOL's aplenty.