Busy
been a bit busy recently. Why? ah, well. Some people have been making rather rash promises to the big guns at HAL regarding what we can deliver and when. Turns out we can't actually deliver a speech, let alone deliver robust, functionally correct, tested, efficient software. Shame we're a software company then.
Some bright spark had the idea to put some responsibility for some of this (for responsibility read blame) on my team. If they'd waited a few weeks they'd have got away with it, but whilst I'm still here I'm not about to gift them a get-out-of-jail-free-and-save-your-arse card. There are some people who deserve such cards - but I don't work for any of them.
So, I've been busy. Busy pointing out half-arsed ideas and why they will fail. Busy writing down our responsibilities and procedures so that no-one can come along in a few months time and say "oh, but I thought Daisy's team were responsible for that". Busy doing paperwork - get this, the person in the far-away office who does the same thing as me has never actually designed any software in his life. He does, however, have time to produce 'slide packs' and spreadsheets, which he then expects us to have the time to read and fill in. Tosser.
This morning I had to sit through an hour and a half of people talking rubbish, going over the same stuff again and again. Listening to people say "I'm compiling a list of bugs that are affecting the quality of my team's work" when really what we want to hear is "we're upgrading to the latest version of the software which contains all the bug fixes in it". Don't compile a list, just get on with the sodding job!
I start my maternity leave in a few weeks and I feel confident that when I return nothing will have moved on, people in other departments would have taken all sorts of liberties, blame for everything will lie with my team and mangelment will generally make a complete dogs-breakfast of everything whilst I'm gone. I am trying to coach the rest of the team to say 'no' to people and to get things in writing etc but I fear that they'll get bullied into all sorts of nonsense whilst I'm gone. I thrive on saying no and upsetting people - everyone else is way too nice.
And then I'll have to clear it all up when I get back.
OR - they will all cope beautifully whilst I'm gone and I'll get back to discover that I am the root of all the problems.
Some bright spark had the idea to put some responsibility for some of this (for responsibility read blame) on my team. If they'd waited a few weeks they'd have got away with it, but whilst I'm still here I'm not about to gift them a get-out-of-jail-free-and-save-your-arse card. There are some people who deserve such cards - but I don't work for any of them.
So, I've been busy. Busy pointing out half-arsed ideas and why they will fail. Busy writing down our responsibilities and procedures so that no-one can come along in a few months time and say "oh, but I thought Daisy's team were responsible for that". Busy doing paperwork - get this, the person in the far-away office who does the same thing as me has never actually designed any software in his life. He does, however, have time to produce 'slide packs' and spreadsheets, which he then expects us to have the time to read and fill in. Tosser.
This morning I had to sit through an hour and a half of people talking rubbish, going over the same stuff again and again. Listening to people say "I'm compiling a list of bugs that are affecting the quality of my team's work" when really what we want to hear is "we're upgrading to the latest version of the software which contains all the bug fixes in it". Don't compile a list, just get on with the sodding job!
I start my maternity leave in a few weeks and I feel confident that when I return nothing will have moved on, people in other departments would have taken all sorts of liberties, blame for everything will lie with my team and mangelment will generally make a complete dogs-breakfast of everything whilst I'm gone. I am trying to coach the rest of the team to say 'no' to people and to get things in writing etc but I fear that they'll get bullied into all sorts of nonsense whilst I'm gone. I thrive on saying no and upsetting people - everyone else is way too nice.
And then I'll have to clear it all up when I get back.
OR - they will all cope beautifully whilst I'm gone and I'll get back to discover that I am the root of all the problems.
posted by Daisy Twoshoes at 12:07 PM
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