Time Mansour - Chapter 92
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Episode 92: An Ordinary Salaryman
I came to the gym.
After running on the treadmill as usual.
“Ahh.”
Lie on the bench, grab the bar and lift it.
I twisted my whole body and squeezed out all the strength I had.
After finishing one set, sweating profusely.
I got up and sat down to take a short break.
“You shouldn’t do that. You’ll get hurt if you do.”
An old man approaches quietly while talking to himself.
It seems like he was just looking at me, pretending not to see me.
Well, I’m used to it now.
Everyone here is so broad-minded.
If I do something wrong even a little bit, he says something to me like he does now.
“Raise your arm once. There. It will make your chest stronger. Right.”
One more. One more. Put it up. Put it up. Right. Right. The old man clapped his hands. Everyone had blank expressions, but I could tell that they were genuinely trying to help.
‘It looks scary, but there are a lot of good people there.’
If you forget it like that.
As old men pass by, they come up to me one by one and give me a pep talk.
I was grateful, but at the same time a little embarrassed.
“You’re doing great. Just do one more set.”
Because in the first place, I didn’t want to be muscular.
I was just trying to take care of my health.
Somehow I couldn’t resist the old men’s passion.
I’m working harder than I thought.
After finishing all the exercise like that.
“thank you.”
Let me bow my head and say hello again.
“Come back tomorrow too. It will only be effective if you do it consistently.”
The old man waved his hands left and right as if nothing was wrong, then turned his back.
Oh my.
I started exercising on my own without thinking much about it.
I left the gym, leaving behind the smell of sweat that was so vibrating.
I felt it during the charity concert too.
Once again.
I feel like there are many good people in the world.
The desire to help someone even if it does not benefit oneself.
Because those kinds of feelings are contagious.
When a more beautiful world comes.
then.
I hope everyone’s faces will be filled with smiles.
As I was walking back home with those thoughts in mind.
suddenly.
-Jiying.
My phone vibrated.
This is the representative’s message.
-I’m sorry. The network and development teams say it’s not their responsibility, but since I don’t know much about IT, I can’t make an accurate judgment. If you have time, could you please take a look?”
The moment you check the message.
Wake up from your dream.
Back to reality again.
**
At first, it would have been so hot that it would have steamed.
however.
It would have cooled down naturally over time.
There was no need to blow any more air.
The scope of work is not as clear as you might think, so there are many things that are neither your nor my work.
At first, I was enthusiastic about learning, but later on, I started to doubt myself and wonder why I had to do all this by myself.
Then people had no choice but to become more and more defensive.
Just like those employees who are arguing right now.
“We’re just not getting the data. There’s nothing we can do.”
“We’re not sure what the problem is. You have to tell us the exact cause so we can tune the application. How can we do that? We can’t just throw away the entire app, right?”
As soon as I entered the office, I heard a loud noise.
Network team and development team.
On both sides.
It seemed like they were both blaming each other for it.
It’s a very natural phenomenon.
I saw with my own eyes that the representative was angry.
of course.
It was normal for them to struggle to avoid being accused of something.
If they didn’t want to use dumbass here, they had no choice but to prove that it wasn’t their problem.
The problem is that we don’t know much about each other’s work.
It clearly wasn’t our problem, but it was difficult to point out that it was the other person’s problem.
And that’s the same situation for me too.
For a while.
I watched them from afar like the guys at the gym.
After arguing like that for a while,
“Huh? Hello. This person is the…”
The staff discover me late and pretend to know me.
“Yes. I received a call.”
“Oh my. You came at a good time. Come this way.”
He moves to another seat without even introducing himself.
Two employees who appear to be team leaders for each team.
I was dragged into the conference room with them without even knowing what was going on.
I had never heard anything from the representative. No, to be exact, it seemed like the representative himself didn’t know how things were going right now.
So, as we were walking side by side towards the conference room, I asked the team leaders a question.
“I don’t know the situation well yet, but you haven’t found the exact cause yet, right?”
“Yes. There seems to be no problem with the network… Well. I’m not sure.”
“Well, you can’t just throw away the entire app without knowing the exact problem.”
This isn’t a new conversation. It’s just a repetition of what we were talking about before.
The network says it’s not their problem.
Developers are asking for evidence that there are problems with their apps.
‘Me too. I don’t know much about networks, so I can’t say anything.’
I got the impression that the development team leader was being a bit pushy.
‘It’s just hard, but it’s not like it’s to the point where the app can’t be used at all.’
I arrived at the conference room with my head tilted like that and a slight suspicion in my mind.
“There can be no bottlenecks in the app.”
“We looked through all the statistics. First of all, there was no data backlog on the network.”
Even after arriving at the conference room, they kept repeating the same thing to each other. They said there was no problem. Time passed without any progress.
“Then, let’s change the network and test it. Then you’ll get an accurate figure. Realistically, there’s no other way.”
The development team leader did come up with a solution.
No matter how much I think about it.
It was a slightly questionable answer.
We can’t do a performance test right now.
Because the performance test equipment is already gone.
It’ll probably take about three months before I can rent equipment again…
‘That. Isn’t that their intention to buy time?’
The development team leader is getting more and more suspicious.
Honestly, if it was a network issue, I was actually happy about it. There was nothing I could do about it. However, I was more suspicious of the development team leader than the network.
It wasn’t any kind of technical analysis. It was just a feeling. A feeling.
If, as expected, the app is having problems.
‘I guess I could try to force it somehow.’
With that thought in mind, I cautiously asked the development team leader.
“If it’s not a problem, can I check out the app? I have a feeling something is going wrong.”
“Huh? No. I can never find this. There are more than one or two sections to find. How can I find them all? I have to find the cause and hand it over to the network team…”
The eyes of the development team leader who was answering wavered.
The speech is getting longer and longer.
I felt like I knew exactly where the problem was.
**
After talking with the team leaders, I went straight up to the CEO’s office.
As I entered, the representative stood up.
“Did you have a chance to talk?”
“Yes, roughly.”
After hearing my answer, the representative heads towards the coffee machine.
Like that, I placed two cups of coffee on the table.
“It’s a development team issue, right?”
Look at me.
“Maybe so. How did you know?”
I nodded slowly.
This representative is a person who knows nothing about IT.
but.
“Team Leader Oh, you’re being overly defensive.”
Because the position was like that, he was quite quick to notice. It seems like he was just someone who didn’t know anything and hit the staff based on their reactions.
“Youngjun said that any errors in the application can be resolved.”
“Me? Did I say that?”
“I thought you said you could do it, except for the network issues… right?”
I said that the network would never do it. I didn’t know that it would be interpreted like that. Well, if the development team helps, it’s not difficult.
But if you act uncooperatively like this, I’ll have to do everything from start to finish by myself.
‘Then it is not an easy task. There is a limit to what an individual can do.’
So I couldn’t answer right away and seemed to hesitate a little.
“I really need to ask you a favor. Lately, too many employees have left, and there aren’t many people I can trust. You know our situation.”
The representative stands up awkwardly from his seat and grabs my hand.
I was wondering why so much money came in last time.
That was all a deposit.
okay.
Even though the person in front of me is the head of the country’s top entertainment company.
Still, I decided to consider it as helping the poor person.
“Then… can you give me some time? I have a lot to look up.”
He nodded slightly.
**
On my way home, I stopped by a nearby bookstore.
There was a reason it took time.
I had to study to solve this problem.
Because each field of program development is different.
Not everyone in the country knew everything.
“It’s been a while.”
I was looking around the development corner, feeling emotional. I used to come to bookstores often when I was a freshman in society.
‘There’s no one to teach you. You have to do the work.’
So whenever I had time, I stopped by a bookstore and looked at books.
It’s been so long since I smelled a book.
I vividly remember my days as a rookie when I knew nothing.
At that time, I was struggling to learn at least one more thing.
Now I’m starting to feel like I can eat and live.
“I can’t read it. I can’t read it.”
I can’t even read books very well.
I don’t have the same level of urgency as I used to. I can’t concentrate like I used to.
“I think we might need to lay the groundwork.”
Whether it’s an app or a program, development can be broadly divided into two categories.
What is visible and what is invisible.
The visible part, like the UI, is the front-end.
The backend is what connects to the server and moves data.
You can think of front-end development as a kind of packaging.
The developers put a wrapper around the program.
‘Because it’s obvious that the development team won’t cooperate.’
I had to unwrap all that packaging by myself.
To exaggerate a little.
In fact, it was no different from making an app on your own.
‘Of course, it’s not a completely unfamiliar field like networking, so I think I could do it if I just put in some time.’
Still, I had to search for a lot of different things.
I don’t know. Let’s solve this quickly and get some real rest. I don’t want to be associated with this CEO anymore. With that in mind, I skimmed through the book.
As I was walking through the books like that, I kept opening them to the first page.
And then.
by chance.
We ran into each other unexpectedly.
“Huh? What? Why are you here?”
“Huh? You’re really bad at studying.”
I think this might be the most embarrassing moment of the year.
surprisingly.
Sohyun was at the bookstore.
Because the child won’t come to buy books.
“If you’re looking for a bathroom, go outside and it’s on the left.”
He kindly showed me the way to the bathroom.
“No, I came here to buy that book!”
Sohyun screams.
A loud noise is heard in a quiet bookstore.
People’s eyes were focused on us.