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I must admit I'm bad at this. However, in my defense it comes down to: bad management. I'm forever being told to work on the next MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER onl

by veb 15y ago

I must admit I'm bad at this. However, in my defense it comes down to: bad management. I'm forever being told to work on the next MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER only to be told after a few days that I need to work ON THE NEXT MOST IMPORTANT THING and that the MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER that I was working on is no longer important at all. le sigh

FuzzyDunlop 15y ago
"Hey, FuzzyDulop, we're a day before deadline but I've been thinking, we could do SUPER BRILLIANT IDEA THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING and it'd be amazing! What do you think?" ... "You can forget about your deadline if you want that in, boss." * skip forward a week * "Hey, FuzzyDunlop, we're a day before deadline but..."
- pestaa 15y ago
  Ha! Old memories. We usually skipped forward 3 months and changed everything again.
- crag 15y ago
  And then getting chewed out for missing the original deadline. Usually from the boss who just drop the SUPER BRILLIANT IDEA THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING in your lab.
  - FuzzyDunlop 15y ago
    We get the sort of unsure, passive aggressive criticism, full of ifs and maybes. The sort that actually makes you feel worse because the boss appears to be personally disappointed. Get chewed out proper and at least you know it's just because jobs have to be done.
- alanh 15y ago
  Dealt with this from an asshat running a semester-long school project. Solution: Drafting my own spec doc, sharing w/ rest of team, asking for comments, saying it would lock in two weeks. Followed that doc for the next month or two. Of course, the asshat was ticked off when the semester was about to close and tried to edit the doc (for the first time). I just said no. I consider it a success even though even Those Kids who contribute nothing got As and I got a B+ despite working quite a bit.