The politics at work is much more fun than the work itself, which I have largely given up on as being worth precisely zilch ( Read more... )

Some of this is universal. A lot of it, however, is simply that the way things are done at the current workplace is massively incompatible with my own psychological preferences ( Read more... )

One of the problems with a workplace which has long suffered from a lack of leadership, lack of funding, lack of intelligence, and lack of attractiveness for a wide range of potential employees is that a significant proportion of the people who remain there for any length of time are - how should I put this - not necessarily the most brilliant ( Read more... )

(continuing from yesterday's count: FOUR of five ( Read more... )

Time to break out the suit and tie again, another client has signed up. Not really sure I can do more than a couple hundred thousand dollars of improvements for them, as they're an order or two of magnitude smaller than I'm used to, but I'll consider it a challenge. They're mostly white-collar, not out in the field, so that's prime territory for me ( Read more... )

As I thought, today's meeting accomplished nothing useful. In fact, it accomplished less than nothing, as it not only took up my time, but it was used to book me for another two meetings in coming weeks purely to cover stuff which has already been covered extensively.

Have I mentioned how much I hate pointless meetings?

Interesting call today. A government ex-employer of mine might be wanting me to come back for a while to fix one of their offices.

And believe me, these places need fixing. The workers in the public-facing offices are all clerk-equivalents, managers, or specialists in certain areas of legislation. If they're lucky they might have someone who ( Read more... )

faithinfire is struck by the realisation that hey, wait, thinking that you've wasted your life up to now may not be entirely all that accurate, y'know?

(Also, there are half-naked wrestlers in the thread. But I know you're clicking that link for purely academic purposesSo, what have you done in your life that's awesome, either from your point of view or ( Read more... )

Another contact regarding the build-a-thing project. Sure, take my idea and strip the useful bits off it. Whatever. Just see if you can get the damn component built, first, and THEN I'll start pushing to have the 'accessories' - ie, the parts which actually make it a sellable product - produced as well ( Read more... )

Ugh ( Read more... )