Stop Yelling At Me
Friday was another banner day for me. I got yelled at again. This time for having the gall to say the production environment was ready. Well, it is. I really can't help it if the data in the DB is wrong, or the ESB service hasn't been properly maintained. The connections work. Thus, the environment is ready. The code and the data, maybe not so much, but that's not what I'm supposed to be concerning myself about.
My favorite part was where I was accused of not taking ownership. That I had been, up to the end of March, but since then, not so much. Let's see. What happened that the end of March that might have made me think that getting the production environment working wasn't worth the effort? Oh, yeah, right, being told that we weren't going to production in April. Guess what? The environment hasn't changed at all. Everything that worked in March works now. Once again, it's not my environment that's failing, it's the code and the data, and I'm not going to be held responsible for that. Period.
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God, these people really need to take their heads out of their collective asses. I don't understand how they feel like they're motivating you to do the best job you can when they keep changing the rules on you and then yelling at you when you've done what they've asked.
GOD.
This is why I hate working for other people. At least when I'm making insane requests of myself, I KNOW they're insane!
No, they're insane, there's no two ways about that. It starts with lack of process, and ends with "motivating" their top workers with complaints and requests of more work to cover the morons. Good practice? I think not.
I wish I had a skill where I could go into contracting. I think I would like it better, plus no pants!
I don't understand how businesses still think they can get away with shit that like. I don't understand why they spend so much time protecting workers who don't do any work. How is that productive?
There are so many problems with thinking like that though, starting with finding 12 qualified developers, that you have this thing called "process." We have none. Zero. The entire collection of process is what Vito and I can enforce. And that's not much. No one else enforces any process whatsoever. And the few times it's been even attempted, it's been overrulled by the project manager or director. So, really, what's the point?
More rope.