Good Thing, Bad Thing
Good Thing - The insurance company and the building management have finally got their acts together and have said I can get my flat fixed.
Bad Thing - So my project at work is based on someone else's work. And their work is quite frequently wrong or corners have been cut and it isn't complete. So I keep having to redo bits of it. The thing I'm working on now was mostly computer-based and, while he was almost a menace with lab stuff, he was reasonably competent with the computer stuff, so I thought it would be okay. Only then I kept getting weird results and went, okay, back to basics, go back to the start and go over everything. It turns out, this guy, who has a PhD, screwed up something you could leave a first year to do. So now I have to explain this to my bosses, and apologise to one collaborator who has spent time helping me. The only reason I haven't damaged the other guy is because my arms do not reach to Cambridge.
Bad Thing - So my project at work is based on someone else's work. And their work is quite frequently wrong or corners have been cut and it isn't complete. So I keep having to redo bits of it. The thing I'm working on now was mostly computer-based and, while he was almost a menace with lab stuff, he was reasonably competent with the computer stuff, so I thought it would be okay. Only then I kept getting weird results and went, okay, back to basics, go back to the start and go over everything. It turns out, this guy, who has a PhD, screwed up something you could leave a first year to do. So now I have to explain this to my bosses, and apologise to one collaborator who has spent time helping me. The only reason I haven't damaged the other guy is because my arms do not reach to Cambridge.