What the hell?

so

today was interesting. for many reasons, dates being part. most of my 'focus' (a term the QA team uses affectionately) is on a blip of today's activities. apparently an email was sent to the femme in waiting...and no response. yet, as she waits for motherhood to arrive we've had opportunity to catch up on my planned vacation over the RNC. (they want me to work the days my newer boss will be on vacation).

i turn my attention to the positive feedback provided to the mer. how far out of your normal routine would you go out of your way?

would you write a letter to someone else's manager and stress the significance of my role?

or would you use the expression," fucking bloody hell" when providing feedback. (NO, really. i wrote those down.) Poor guy needed a regurgitation session yesterday when i just didn't have the time to do it. I'm on the phone all day, and all he wants to do is cross things off his list...which is skewed toward QA. Hallo, Lucy, this is not exactly the focus of our job. (it's to remember what banking heard last promised, among other things, and to keep folks on track to dates.)

other tidbits: dev mgr invited me to a client meeting.

i attended.

then i watched QA manager focus on low/trivial/mundane items on a poorly designed filter. i spent the bulk of today updating the GRAMMAR of the QA team, so the reports would read to an English speaking person. My changes however, cannot capture ill logic applied to decision points. I literally had to comb through closed items to revert to earlier status(ae?). for the record, the E. acknowledged the short signted perspective he took previously.

as if that saved me any time today.

Whatever.

(a word I don'treally care for, but hey, it's Tuesday. waht else can i do?)

I just need to finish the project.

It's history in the making, and unbelievable that there's a VP that has no ability to manager a team of quality assurance folks. Is that my job? (You know checking up after him, prompting planning for deliverables, etc.) Not sure...but....it makes me rethink the need for an MBA. Would I be reporting in to someone this clueless if I had a degree under my belt?

Do I want to spend money proving myself? or should i find an alternate means of making income?

posted by irene @ 8/03/2004 10:25:00 PM