Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Ever have one of those days? - UPDATED

I am done. I'm just done! I am so tired today. I was great this morning. The coffee flavored Tequila last night and sleeping in a bit this morning helped make it a great day. Then came all of the crap. First, AB came off of 2 sick days. In “this is all the crap I’ve done in the past two days” talk, he mentioned a custom app that needed to be done. Not so much mentioned it as almost jumped down my throat about how he THOUGHT I was doing it and how he told the customer they could have it by Friday. Tough shit! You never told me to do it, there is no request assigned to me in the system., you never even sent me the spec for it! Deep breath, deep breath. It’s a two minute thing. I can get it done. If I didn’t, I’m sure I’d be the one blamed for not reading his damn mind. Next issue, the definition of the word minimum… What do you think that means? I spend a half hour of my life explaining to someone that minimum pin length meant you can’t have pins smaller that that number. A HALF HOUR! Poor Shelly had to sit through my tirade about this since it happened right before we went to lunch. After lunch, I spent another half hour explaining something to the acting IT person. It wasn’t even something he had to know. I just needed him to give access to a machine to a couple of the other engineers, but he wouldn’t let it go. In the end he was like “oh, the only way to do that is to make sure everyone knows about it.” No shit, that’s why THEY NEED ACCESS! Then, did you look at the document that BM wrote? NO! What the hell? How much time did you think I had? Suddenly me doing 3 high priority changes and getting 2 builds out in the two days you were gone is not enough? By the way, Ben, you‘ll love this. The document re-designs the work you did right before you left. Isn’t it nice to feel that all those long hard hours you put in are appreciated? I glanced over BM’s doc and it’s just crap. I don’t even know what he is saying half the time! And finally, there is the conversation about testing. How do we test this, how do we determine what to test, blah blah blah… By the way, I’M NOT IN THE TEST GROUP! I don’t really give a crap! Can’t you all please just leave me alone? It’s kind of sad that a lot of my answers to questions now end with “I really don’t care. If you want to do it, do it, if not, don’t.”

-2 days after original post and it never ends-
Hey everyone, thanks for the encouraging works, but it's still not better! Not better at all. It's not my job to direct SS! He is not my employee. I didn't write the spec he is using. Can we please just leave me to do MY job? And the thing AB promised to the customer... I did that. Yes, I turned it around in one day and it went out yesterday. Did I get a Thanks, Good Job, You saved my Ass since I promised it to them. NO! Of course not. That's how things go around here...

Chele - I think you are the only one that picked up on the tequila. Yup, got it in Anguilla at the rum factory. I know, rum and tequila? Well, their sister company is the tequila factory so they have tastings of both. After a few different rums and tequilas, you'll buy anything!

8 Comments:

At 4:44 PM, April 05, 2006, Blogger ShellyP said...

Wow, what a rant. You needed to get that off your chest. You know how these guys are. Keep breathing.

 
At 11:40 PM, April 05, 2006, Blogger Jdid said...

whoa really a bad day i see,been there done that. there have been days where i just leave and go for a long long walk at lunch and then still need another one before i go home

 
At 11:56 AM, April 06, 2006, Blogger chele said...

Been there. It gets better. Coffee flavored tequila, huh?

 
At 4:45 PM, April 06, 2006, Blogger Shawn said...

oh boy! all better now?

 
At 2:08 PM, April 07, 2006, Blogger brooklyn babe said...

Coffe flavored Tequilla, you don't say?

 
At 8:50 AM, April 09, 2006, Blogger chele said...

Yeah my ears tend to perk up when tequila is mentioned. Yup! Tequila is my friend.

 
At 5:32 PM, April 09, 2006, Anonymous Anonymous said...

all better, now? ;-)

 
At 12:05 PM, April 10, 2006, Blogger Shawn said...

Those suckas...I'll sic my cousins on them for you.

Ok, you can obviously tell I have nothing to add. hehehe!

On the tennis channel they've been airing this Anquilla Tennis Academy advertisement lately. Everytime I see it I think about you.

 

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