I just got the developer who was chapping my ass to admit she has had no idea what she's doing on project X for about a month now, that's why she's freaking out at me.
Now, she has been given output she needs to generate and the variable conditions in which it would be. Her problem seems to be that the requirements are too specific, so she wants wiggle room so it's okay when she doesn't meet them.
Fuck that. She wants a word doc, she's got a word doc. And it says "generate the HTML that guy is giving you. Please." I know everyone at her location probably hates me by now, and thinks I'm crap at my job, but I am willing to push her as much as is required for her to say "I can't" or the even more dulcet "I don't want to." Because this stage in the middle where nothing gets done but it can't be assigned to someone else is killing my deliverables.
One of the things I put in my self eval willingly was to mark myself low on delivery because my projects were not being completed in a timely fashion because
there is a lack of infrastructure to deliver solutions.
Even though I'm miffed I marked myself down on communication, I'll take that other hit, especially in a document that counts as a permanent record.
I haven't had my meeting where they discuss my raise (cost of living, if that) and bonus (100% of possible???) but I did get the numbers, at least.
Now I have to write a presentation on project management and use case documentation for executives. I wanted to have all cutesy punchy terms, but I'll be damned if I can describe all the important PM components in words ending in -ate (starting off with "communicate, mitigate, estimate" was heady, but ultimately unsupportable).
Ah, well.
Update: allegations of the involvement of the current Pope in hiding prisoners from human rights people appears to be a major error. This new Pope was not Archbishop at the time this happens, and it was the then Archbishop who did this. There do seem to be very credible allegations however that now-Francis did withdraw protection of the church from two Jesuits under his chain of command, allowing the Argentinian military to kidnap and torture them. Source for both: today's Democracy Now.
There do seem to be very credible allegations however that now-Francis did withdraw protection of the church from two Jesuits under his chain of command, allowing the Argentinian military to kidnap and torture them.
Whereas his argument was that he interceded with the military on their behalf, possibly saving their lives. Frankly, I don't think we'll ever know for sure.
Whereas his argument was that he interceded with the military on their behalf, possibly saving their lives. Frankly, I don't think we'll ever know for sure.
Yeah, given Argentina at the time, I'm going to have to say that, from all I've read, it's complicated, and that his responses appear to have attempted to be pragmatic to the point of resembling triage.
Lesser Evil does appear to fit him well.
Facilitate?
Having actually typed out slides that cover the training I just had (he seems to be fixated on that--I PMed for years before my first official course, and my first course was in 2002. And it was a UCLA extension course, not this two day business seminar.
Trying to decide what's my angle--project management in general, project management as these guys taught it, or "things that came up that I haven't seen here". I have 20 slides already, so winnowing is job 1.
I have no Djimon Hounsou at work but I did get a couple of weeks with Jimmy Smits not too long ago.
My office smells like bacon. Ew. I wish my crew would eat in the green room.
I brought in pie, and then someone else brought in doughnuts. And today was a birthday lunch day, so there was Graeter's. AND because Panera screwed up our order TWICE, they gave us a huge box of danishes and scones and other pastries.
I look forward to our group discount on insulin and needles.
I don't think I am observing Pi Day this year. Unless eating a tortilla as part of my lunch counts (because it is round and therefore has a circumference and diameter...)
My mom had a hysterectomy scheduled for this morning, and my dad promised he would call when she was out of surgery, but it's nearly 3pm on the East Coast and still no call. And my dad doesn't have a cell phone, and my mom does but never uses it. I'm going to assume everything is fine because I have no particular reason to assume otherwise, but damn, I would really like to get that phone call already.
