This is ridiculous. I am trying to do some VB/ASP.NET/SQL Server 2000 programming on a project that was 3 months overdue before it was turned over to me but I can never get it done. It is usually insane the number of meetings that take place in this corporate setting, but today is particularly insane. Today I will literally spend more time in meetings than I will spend doing any actual work. (Of course there are some days that I have only one meeting but am not particularly productive that the same thing could be said). I came in today and worked from 8:00am until 10:00 and then went to a meeting. The meeting lasted an hour and a half and then I went to lunch. I got back from lunch at 12:30pm and I have another meeting at 1:30 that is supossed to last until 3:00. At that time I will come back to my desk and prepare for the video conference meeting that I am supposed to be leading from 3:30 until 4:30ish (chances are it will last longer). After that last meeting I will try and kill a few minutes and then head home. Today is really going to be an unproductive day. I guess I shouldn't waste any more moments typing this.
Posted by bhuffine at July 10, 2003 01:01 PM | TrackBackOh no, don't worry. I'm working on a 3-month late C#/.NET project myself right now, where they've been debating whether color blind folk will be able to see the colors in our application... for SIX MONTHS. That's just one issue, there are many many others. The last programmer quit because of all this, and he was a really really good programmer as well as being a really good person... like with social skills and all that shiznat. So now I'm picking up his project. At least it's not like Eric's work where you have to fill out a three page document in triplicate to be able to make a one line code change!
Posted by: at July 10, 2003 03:15 PMLord I hope all of you aren't computer programmers. Maybe Ben just thought it'd be funny for all of you to here the history major try and sound like he knows what a freakin CNET is. Anyway I can groan about meetings. Although I don't find myself in them often, at least not as often as its sounds ya'll do. That's right "ya'll". For some reason it makes me feel like even more of an oaf to type "you guys" than it does to say it. Anyway back to my groaning. I often find that I play the, "what he meant was this" or "what he should have said was this". Which translated from the thought, "shut up, you're an idiot". But alas, though fun and exhilerating, that is hardly a productive thought to verbalize. If I lived in a world more to my liking (and from what I know of him more to Ben's liking) words like "stupid", "moron", and "idiot" would be a perfectly accepted means of communication and criticism. I rather think it would be quite helpful actually. If I say something stupid I would rather feel like an idiot once than think it was funny and actually be an idiot many many more times.