Page 29 of One Night Billionaire

Chapter fifteen

“Icannotbelievethisis happening right now,” Anna said out loud to no one in particular.

She’d come in this morning after setting the program up last night on several different computers to run and test everything. Everything should have been fine, but of course, it was acting weird.

Everything always went weird in production, but it shouldn’t have beenthisweird. That meant that somewhere there was another bug in the code. She wished she knew what this other project manager had been thinking when they did all this crap.

“What the hell is going on?”

Anna didn’t hide her groan as she heard Brian arriving. Everyone was in overdrive looking for the errors and trying to find where they were coming from.

“Calm down,” she scolded him. “We are looking for whatever your old project manager did to the program.”

“You said you found it all,” he said through clenched teeth.

“No. I said I found what I could but some we wouldn’t be able to see until it went live. That’s why I allotted two days to test this.” Anna put her hands on her hips and faced him. “Either you’re here to help or you’re here to be in the way. I don’t need you in the way.”

“You’ve got to be shitting me,” he muttered.

“I’m not. This is serious and I do not have the time to stand here and debate it with you. The program is running on all five of these computers, feel free to hop on the free one and see if you can find a pattern or solve the damn issue.”

Anna didn’t wait for him to reply but went back to the computer where she had been working. She was very serious when she said she didn’t have the time for his crap. If she wanted to be able to follow through to the launch, then they needed to figure it out.

“Anna,” Jose, one of the stronger technical people on her team said, “I think I’ve found something.”

“Show me,” Anna told him.

Brian was close behind her as she went to see what he had found. A pattern had finally emerged as Jose showed it to them. It wasn’t everything, but it gave them a place to start looking for the bug.

Anna raised her voice so everyone could hear her. “It’s a pattern. Jose will get this on the whiteboard, so we know what we’re looking for. I want everyone looking for any other patterns. I’m going to see if I can use this to find the bug.”

Everyone murmured their agreement and went back to their computers.

“I know you’re going to screw with it,” she said to Brian. “Make sure you’re not in the production environment when you do.”

“I’m not an idiot,” he told her.

“Agree to disagree.” She wasn’t about to engage with him at that point.

She put her head down and set about trying to find a needle in the haystack. Another hour passed before more patterns were found. They now knew what the bug was doing and could all start looking for it.

They took a small break to order lunch and went right back to it. As lunch arrived, everyone brought it to their workstations and kept going. She appreciated the dedication the team had to keep working without her needing to keep them focused.

“Why are you in that?” Brian asked over her shoulder.

“What?” she said, annoyed.

“Why are you in that part? It has nothing to do with where this bug would be.”

Anna took a deep breath and slowly let it out. If he continued to question her, she was going to lose her damn mind.

“I know what I’m doing. That’s why you hired me.”

“I thought you did, but now I’m starting to question that.”

Anna braced her palms on either side of the computer and stood, praying for patience with this man as she did.

“If I were going to hide a bug that I didn’t want to show until production, I would put it somewhere it shouldn’t be. What if it’s not a bug, but a whole separate program within your program?”

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