I feel like I'm at home at my old desk at the henhouse now, and the days when whenever I asked my old mentor magpaj how to do something, he silently reached for matt Austern's Generic Programming and the STL and made me read some totally incomprehensible algorithm ( Read more... )

After 5 years of resisting all kinds of process and documentation indoctrination at the henhouse - I've become a document structure and processs guru.

Eeeeeep.

Well, came in for lunch and coffee.

Colleagues gave me a big basket full of wine, and a cheese evening for two at one of my favourite restaurants...close to crying.

Blah. And finally. And blah.

Home to bath, I think.

the accuracy of this post is almost scary. posted a month before the actual event ( Read more... )

T - 1.5 hours and counting.

Although I kept saying angst in a tourettes-like manner all through lunch. Poor krokers_hasse. Excellent lunch at M. Chocolate truffes. Burp.

Think I may finally have blown my chances with Project Mangement after telling US management that the project is doomed. Doomed I say. DoooOOOooomed.

Somehow sunnyD's shoe post turned me back into my old happy ( Read more... )

[Sanity warning: The Drama Queen Fairy was present during the production of this post.]

Frustration. Frustration. Frustration.

Knowing that an army of fuck up fairies have permanently installed themselves in the project.
And it would have taken me 3 weeks to fix, with less hazzle for everyone.

Four days more.

I care too much to be stuck in a work that I care about without any work to do. It sucks.

I'm breaking my contractor.

Outsourcing to India...

Especially fond of "Tech support II":
"You mean they outsourced all the tech support to ONE indian? Do you ever get breaks?"
"Breaks? What is breaks?"
"You know, like, if you stop doing what you're doing now, for like, 5 minutes?"
"That is a very odd concept. My seat is also a toilet, so I won't have to leave my desk."

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