#TechFrustration

Experience a compatibility issue with TechnologyA and updated SystemC. TechnologyA and not updated SystemB work fine, as they did from go live 5 years ago.

Can't figure it out, open a support ticket with TechA.

TechA support blames Updated SysC and says there is nothing they can do.

Side note: TechA exists to make SysB and SysC work. It's why they exist.

After some back and forth, I close the ticket. TechA support is sympathetic and unhelpful. I get sent a survey. I scored support zero out of five across the board.

The issue bugs me, there has to be a fix. As stated, this is why TechA exists, and I can't replicate the problem using any equivalent method or system.

So I deep dive it. I capture raw data streams from working, test, and broken systems, compare them.

Find the error, research it.

Which allows me to cobble together a fix on TechA. Problem resolved! But cobbled together fix is missing some automation steps. But now I have something concrete to work with, search how to automate it on TechA's site.
..which then helps me find the knowledge base article that would have fixed the problem in the first place. If TechA Support had half a fucking clue about their own goddamned product.

Anyway. After giving Zero out of Five rating on the support I received, I am waiting like a panther in the tree tops for the Support Manager to get back to me about the review I left.

That's going to be a good day.

Oh really? I have a KB article on your site bookmarked that says otherwise...

Mwah-ha-ha-ha.