I swear. I can go mistake free at work for months but you make one little mistake and some people are like a dog with a bone and just can’t let go! My manager is all worked up that a 3rd party provider put an arbitrary limit on a service and I didn’t pass this information on (yeah, that was my mistake, I’ll admit it). At the time, I could swear I discussed it with my architect and we said “ok, we’ll reach this threshold probably NEVER! so it’s not a big deal”.

Well, even though the 3rd party provider’s system is crap and can’t handle our traffic so the project is turned off in production at the moment, my manager found out about this limit and freaked out. We just did research on the production data, and there is currently only one account that could *potentially* be affected (due to the logic and algorithm, you can’t look at the data and know for sure if it would reach the limit).

At that point I expected things to be “ok, we’re willing to live with that as it probably won’t affect anyone, we’ll just make sure it’s documented and handled as gracefully as possible”. The funny thing is we’re trying to limit our load on this system so we probably WILL keep or even lower the limit, it’s just the fact that it didn’t get properly fed up the chain of command that has everyone (well, really as far as I know just one person) in such a tizzy. This person said the business lead was upset as well, but I know the business lead well and actually work really well with the lead, and I doubt they are that upset about this.