I’m Not Willy Wonka

This needs to be on display on the back of my monitor so that when people come up to talk to me they are not surprised but warned. I came back to the office and was handed back an undone to-do list including three critical defects in production that should have been handled over the…

Finding the Light

I’m feeling mushy. Squishy too, but that’s a different problem, if you will. When a combination of stress, lack of sleep and allergies come together, I fly high on the adrenaline, then I crash.  I feel down. I feel low.  I feel sensitive. I feel mushy – or more like overly emotional in certain areas….

So How Was Your Day….

DJ asked me this as I was making dinner. I had just put dinner in the oven as she asked. “Well, let me explain my day.  I sent an email to a person I work with asking ‘what time will the food come out of the oven?’  Easy question – right?” “Right.” “So imagine if…

Ramblings of the Overworked

Today marks the 10th consecutive day of work.  While I have been through go-lives before, this is the most fucked up one in memory.  Everyone has issues.  Last minute things that must be worked through. But we have not done a single end-to-end transaction in the system. Not one.  And we are literally 6 days…

Week in Review

What a crazy week! While I was away from the office last week, I got a call from my boss asking if I had any interest in taking over the integration project. That PM had accepted a project to oversee a huge project with many project managers.  They had been looking for her replacement when…

Common Sense is Uncommon

I know, I know….I’m stating the obvious again. But geesh, people!  Why cannot common sense be more common than uncommon? Please?? Pretty please with sugar? I am working with a project team that is not my own.  I made the big mistake of asking if anyone needed help and got the fun job of assigning…

Toys, Cats, Friends, Oh, My….

Ashly is doing her 3rd year of Toys for Tots.  I love that she does this fundraiser every year.  Go give her a few dollars to support her this year.  I know times are tough, but that’s not the fault of the kids.  Make sure they get some toys during the holidays.  It’s a good…

Observations as a New Employee

The “It’s a small world” music should be piped into this place.  This area is small in terms of developers and IT people, so running into so many people I’ve worked with in the past has been funny. Everything is setup as work groups.  And people are very openly vocal about, well, everything.  Headphones are…

Random Ramblings for Wednesday

First off, welcome back to Veronica over at ASM.  She had walked away from blogging, but came back. We knew she couldn’t stay away.  May you find the balance of topic you are hoping for. Today I start my job.  Should be interesting.  Their first question to me was about passive agressive people.  I am…

My thoughts in bullets

Hiring for the job I interviewed for is “on hold” indefinitely.  That was the last word I got on Friday afternoon as I lay in bed sick.  So, I’m back to square one.  It sucks, but it is what it is.  Nothing I can do about it.  What sucks is that they were clearly on…