Rant: Work-life balance

[Freed Roger]

Doing 75% of my work during 25% of the year helps balance things out. Especially when that 25% part of the year is generally the crappiest/most conducive for office work.

[jim]

Jim, I can relate a lot to what you've said there.

I'd say half the time, I'm in the same scenario as you- trying not to get in the way, trying to make sure that the people who actually do the work get the credit instead of me, etc...

The other half of the time, I feel like I'm babysitting a bunch of bungling chimpanzees. I manage projects but not the people who actually do the work. So the complete [expletive] idiot who DOES manage them doesn't teach them what they need to know. And then I have to sweep up the mess.

Of course, the complete [expletive] idiot will be the one who takes the credit, even though he didn't lift a finger or do a single thing to take the job from start to finish.

I'm basically The Wolf from Pulp Fiction.

I'm good at "not getting in the way". Everyone says it's what makes me a good manager. I have it down to a science. You said you "try", if you need any pointers let me know. GRB, last nights box scores, an interesting podcast, or learn a new language! It's what I do best.

My biggest problem is masquerading around other managers and my boss. When they get on their manager high horses I just want to scream to them - "THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES. Surely you see that you [expletive] moron, right?"

[Fat_Bulldog]

I was just made aware that we are going to make changs into Production on Saturday to fix an issue known for over 3 months.

It can't wait until next week like it has the last 3 months. Nope. Has to go on Saturday of a [expletive] holiday weekend. [expletive].

[Gashouse]

That's [expletive].

[jim]

I was just made aware that we are going to make changs into Production on Saturday to fix an issue known for over 3 months.

It can't wait until next week like it has the last 3 months. Nope. Has to go on Saturday of a [expletive] holiday weekend. [expletive].

Tell the Change Advisory Board to go [expletive] themselves.

[Fat_Bulldog]

I was just made aware that we are going to make changs into Production on Saturday to fix an issue known for over 3 months.

It can't wait until next week like it has the last 3 months. Nope. Has to go on Saturday of a [expletive] holiday weekend. [expletive].

Tell the Change Advisory Board to go [expletive] themselves.

CAB is advising not to do this. The app team is fighting us saying this has to be done immediately. This app team always does this and their [expletive] always fails. The app team is seeking VP approval to do this. We even have a change moratorium this weekend.

[cardinalkarp]

Does the app team have to come in for this also, or will they be off all weekend?

[heyzeus]

The appetizer team can go get me some potato skinz and STFU

[JackofDiamonds]

Goddamn app team! Those flyboys think they run the joint.

[Fat_Bulldog]

Does the app team have to come in for this also, or will they be off all weekend?

They will be the ones implementing the change. However, it requires other resources from 3rd party vendors that take me much time coordinating.

This probably won't happen now because it's not even in a SIT environment yet. They want to put it into SIT tomorrow morning, UAT tomorrow evening and then PROD tomorrow night/Saturday morning. We usually let changes simmer for a week in each environment before progressing. However, they like to fail, so they want to do it this way and have it fail so we can triage the damn thing in PROD all weekend only to decide Sunday night/Monday that the best thing to do is rollback the changes and then do them the right way.

So, we'll get to [expletive] off all weekend with this and then do it the right / planned way again in a week or two.

I might get fired during today's meeting about this because I'm not going to stay quiet.