Friday, August 08, 2025

Gah!

Work's pissing me off. I'm working on a high-visibility project and they've arbitrarily decided we're going to release it next week. We're not finished. It's OK, they explained, we'll release what we've got "dark" (i.e. turned off) then when the rest is done, we'll release that and turn it on.

I said I wasn't happy.

My co-worker said he wasn't happy.

Still, they persisted.

So now, not only do we have to finish the work and hope that it's up to scratch, but we have extra chores to do to prepare for next week, as well.

And all to save a week.

For a fancy new user interface that's (IMO) awful to look at. But we're not doing that bit. Nothing legal. Nothing that's going to cost the company a lot of money. Nothing compliance related. Just an arbitrary date so someone can look good.

Maybe I'll do EuroMillions tonight. 

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