Down with the sickness

Of the 4 real developers here at my employer (the two AS/400 developers don't count, they are old and don't do much but complain), I am the only one here. Our “leader” is out on personal issues, I think he's on his way out the door, but really have no idea if he is or not. My buddy, another .net developer and powerebuilder dev. is in Boston getting training for an accounting software package, and then there's our other guy. This other guy left yesterday to go get his Girlfriend's daughter from daycare... Then today he's out, I have no idea why, but he's available by cell. He's always gone, I swear at least once a week, there's no way he has any vacation or personal time left.

Developing in this environment really sucks lately, most of the time it isn't even fun anymore, isn't that what makes our jobs nice, being fun? Hopefully things will change soon, else I'll have to come up with a change myself and find somewhere else to go, there's just a point where a job isn't worth it anymore. I'd hate to see the job I have now get that way, but the politics here are complete crap. I realize there are politics everywhere, but here's an example of what I get.

The other day, I got lectured, over EMAIL, about using email too much as communication between the team. A bit ironic, and stupid I must say.

Alright, time to get back to work, thanks for listening to me vent a little.

4 Comments

  • I hate when people try to point out that email is over-used as a communication tool. I merely point to the lost time in productivity of people walking up, at random times, to talk to me versus if they had just dropped me an email and let me respond when it was convienent for me to stop what I was doing. Besides, it usually takes 30 seconds to a couple of minutes to read and respond to an email versus the five minutes if they walk up and interrupt what I am doing.



    The next arguement is that they say that it was important (which of course is debateable), but I merely ask them to go find an email that they deemed was important that wasn't answered by me within a reasonable amount of time, and if one is found, that it was either apparent that it was important, stated that it was important, or flagged as important.



    And of course there is already the argument in favor of email that equals an automatic paper trail. Another words, if you emailed me something that needed my attention, you have proof you sent it to me.



    Anyway, cheer up, tomorrow is two days later than Monday, and one day closer to the weekend than today.

  • IM's are an alternative to email :)

    (I can't imagine the amount of ppl bothering you with questions then :p)

  • Sheesh - I started programming on an IBM S/32 - so your making me feel REALLY old! The 32 became the 34 then the 36 and then the S/36 and 38 became the AS/400. :)

  • hehe sorry Alex :)

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