My work life has been consumed by people taking it upon themselves to force me to live up to my potential, whatever that might be. It seems a little at odds with the constant complaints I receive regarding my lack of approachability and general intimidation factor. How intimidating can I be if, no matter where I go or what I do, someone sees past ( Read more... )

My project's architect is going to be the death of me. Or, at the very least, the ruination of my weekend.

I didn't make it through twenty-four hours before getting the call from work.

I should never have allowed the Baptist to check his code in without review.

I don't think I will actually be leaving work tonight.

So, my architect schedules an hour this morning for our code review, even though we both hope against all hope that it won't actually take that long. I manage, thanks largely to a lack of sleep and the requirement that I shower and shave before they turn my water off, to arrive at work before 10:00, giving myself a little breathing room (about ( Read more... )

"I hope you didn't lose too much ( Read more... )

Work filling me with rage.

I was so pissed off by a fellow engineer's refusal to fix a bug regarding radio box controls that I posted an incredibly pedantic public refutation of his logic that begin with "I call B.S. on that explanation" and proceeded into the dictionary's definition of what it means "to toggle." The Baptist has supposedly ( Read more... )

Well, that was worthwhile.

Issues with our proprietary rendering engine consumed two of my allotted six hours of dev time. I managed to implement about half my features before I ran out of time. The bugs I uncovered, along with the lack of time for an adequate code review, gave my manager sufficient cause to push back our deadline while ( Read more... )

Well, that was a monumental waste of effort. I forwent working out this morning as well as my usual lassitude in order to ensure arrival by 9:30. Of course, I was fifteen minutes late, but that is still a good forty-five minutes earlier than the arrival time to which I have grown accustomed. All this so I could begin what was supposed to be a ( Read more... )

All of the cats are away, which explains my uncharacteristic responsiveness to comments as of late. My director is out of the office without explanation, meaning he is off sailing his boat. My manager is "working from home," meaning she too felt the need to kick the weekend off early. My architect is "battling a terrible cold," which I believe ( Read more... )

Okay, so I'm done.

I watched the way my new manager and my eccentric architect allowed a preventable situation to blow up and I decided to jump back into the role of unrecognized yet responsible team member ( Read more... )