Nanny
I guess that's really what they want from me at work. Not an employee. A nanny. Who never gets upset with the children, no matter how many times she tells them not to wipe their nose on the sofa. Do we make the devs manage their own code merges? No. Let the build team do it. Do we make the testing leads learn how to use the tools the company paid so much for? No. Let the build team hand them their updates on a silver platter. Do we trust the team leads to come to some sort of consensus about when they'd like the next build? No. Let the build team just do whatever is asked of them, even if it makes no sense, or isn't possible, or simply wastes time.
Must be nice being able to rely on the build team to do everything, and take the blame for everything, and ignore them when they make suggestions to improve the process.
And if one of them happens to lose their temper, well, let's not wonder why, or even try to fix the underlying situation. Let's just scold him for being unprofessional.
Yes, that was me today. I'm not a very good nanny, apparently. Curse my desire to hold people to a higher standard.
Comments
Hah, 2 weeks of new baby-vacation for a first time-dad isn't that much either. Moms get 8 months since I suppose the government couldn't go 'round the fact that either the moms work with a baby attached to their boobs for the first year or we let them have half of it and they use it staying at home with the baby. And 5 weeks a year is a standard holiday here, 4 in the summer, 1 in the winter. Which makes it kinda interesting for people with kids since they don't have to go to school for 2,5 months in the summer.
But still, deifinately not envious of your situation, hang in there!