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Visit by colleagues is over. Nice to see them and work with them, frustrating to not have prepared agenda, frustrating to have so many other demands.
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New Director story
Colleagues in team in our division need my team to improve something so their application (new product, not yet making money) can improve. Our priority at the moment is to improve something so that Major Product (subsidizes much of our other programs) can move its customer base to the new platform. The Product manager for our work writes New Director:
Product: We can't promise this work in iterations (time periods of work) 21 & 22, but we could get to it in 23.
New Director: That's fine. We must have it in 22. (Except much more wordy, but it really started with "That's fine.")
Product to Me: All is well
Me to Product: Did you really read that?
Product to New Director: 23, thanks.
Further discussion between the two indicates that New Director, on his visit, will be pressuring us to get this additional work done.
Meanwhile, my Technical Lead is engaged in "We will do every improvement we know we need to do, starting now. All of them." This is like watching a friend try to enact a five page list of New Years resolutions all at once. It's also like witnessing a work stoppage.
It is NOT incremental improvements but i'm trying to not crush enthusiasm or professional ideals.
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I am fortunately feeling better from The Cough, with some energy returning.
I really miss Christine: not only was i in the office on Wednesday, but ate out with colleagues on Wednesday, so i've hardly had a chance to see her since the weekend. (I'm up early, and am going to sleep at about the time she comes home from classes; she's getting up just as i am out the door in the morning.) She's worried about me -- health and my work distress -- without checking in together i think her worries ran away a bit.
I've left her one morning in the grips of migraine, another morning she was frustrated over the dead dishwasher.
Oh dead dishwasher, whose replacement part may not arrive before the 27th, you should be glad we don't "Do Thanksgiving." If we did, we would likely curse you for your poorly timed part failure.
Oh Consumer Reports -- You said this model was reliable!!
We've agreed to have Pizza Delivery for Thanksgiving: it is what we would have some of the years in Philly when Christine was in radio, doing night shifts. It's food that she loves, and not focusing on food allows focus on Thanks.
I can let my Inner Martha Stewart play other times.
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New Director story
Colleagues in team in our division need my team to improve something so their application (new product, not yet making money) can improve. Our priority at the moment is to improve something so that Major Product (subsidizes much of our other programs) can move its customer base to the new platform. The Product manager for our work writes New Director:
Product: We can't promise this work in iterations (time periods of work) 21 & 22, but we could get to it in 23.
New Director: That's fine. We must have it in 22. (Except much more wordy, but it really started with "That's fine.")
Product to Me: All is well
Me to Product: Did you really read that?
Product to New Director: 23, thanks.
Further discussion between the two indicates that New Director, on his visit, will be pressuring us to get this additional work done.
Meanwhile, my Technical Lead is engaged in "We will do every improvement we know we need to do, starting now. All of them." This is like watching a friend try to enact a five page list of New Years resolutions all at once. It's also like witnessing a work stoppage.
It is NOT incremental improvements but i'm trying to not crush enthusiasm or professional ideals.
--==∞==--
I am fortunately feeling better from The Cough, with some energy returning.
I really miss Christine: not only was i in the office on Wednesday, but ate out with colleagues on Wednesday, so i've hardly had a chance to see her since the weekend. (I'm up early, and am going to sleep at about the time she comes home from classes; she's getting up just as i am out the door in the morning.) She's worried about me -- health and my work distress -- without checking in together i think her worries ran away a bit.
I've left her one morning in the grips of migraine, another morning she was frustrated over the dead dishwasher.
Oh dead dishwasher, whose replacement part may not arrive before the 27th, you should be glad we don't "Do Thanksgiving." If we did, we would likely curse you for your poorly timed part failure.
Oh Consumer Reports -- You said this model was reliable!!
We've agreed to have Pizza Delivery for Thanksgiving: it is what we would have some of the years in Philly when Christine was in radio, doing night shifts. It's food that she loves, and not focusing on food allows focus on Thanks.
I can let my Inner Martha Stewart play other times.
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