Master Chiefs are nigh unto God in the services. I'll have to point him out to Hubby, who was in the Coast Guard.
Aurelia, what is the job?
I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jul 25, 2012 2:02:55 pm PDT #15465 of 30001
brillig
Calli - Jul 25, 2012 2:04:38 pm PDT #15466 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congratulations, aurelia!
And good on Boston.
Kat - Jul 25, 2012 2:13:22 pm PDT #15467 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
aurelia, that's awesome! Congrats!
energy has waned. I blame Santa Monica.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2012 2:14:16 pm PDT #15468 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I left an IT guy doing an installation at my computer while I was in a meeting.
Bets on whether he flipped over to my open browser and read any tabs?
I can't actually decide with him. Could go either way, honestly. The temptation would be so strong. I can't lie. But I would feel good knowing I hadn't done it. And I'd feel great knowing I had.
I have been driven to the point of committing chocolate. Lordie lord...it's just...you have to work out a way to phrase your questions differently from your answers. And agreement differently from dissent. If I can't tell any of those apart, it's kind of hard to be productive with you.
I was having a bitch session with one of the BAs, and I was complaining about the QA group, and how they always tore my requirements documents apart. He cracked my shit up with "Dammit! If the developers can develop without requirements, why can't you test without them?"
Which is...so very perfect. Could not have said it better myself.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 25, 2012 2:15:14 pm PDT #15469 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Also, The Cutting Edge was directed by Starsky?!?!?
Sophia Brooks - Jul 25, 2012 2:20:15 pm PDT #15470 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
The comments about both the Boston rejection of Chik-fil-a and about even the possibility of curtailing the availability of guns are so filled with vitriol and illogic (at least on Facebook) that I fear for my sanity.
Anne W. - Jul 25, 2012 2:32:48 pm PDT #15471 of 30001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Congratulations, aurelia!
Burrell - Jul 25, 2012 2:48:04 pm PDT #15472 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
It's not your sanity I'd fear for, Sophia.
Atropa - Jul 25, 2012 2:56:27 pm PDT #15473 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
He cracked my shit up with "Dammit! If the developers can develop without requirements, why can't you test without them?"
Because then the docs team discovers there are no specs for anything, that no one is writing down what the hell they're doing, and that leads to wearing fangs to work and hissing at people. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
§ ita § - Jul 25, 2012 3:19:51 pm PDT #15474 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Hypothetically speaking, our SDLC has a big fat arrow running back from the testing crew to the requirements generation.
Which, as the business analyst, I have to shoulder blame for.
But the basic system requirement was "Allow producing field "salespeople" to single sign on into this vendor website, providing them with a free license if their yearly gross is over $75K."
Boom.
The amount of time we spent circling on "salespeople" and trying work out how to codify that (they're the ones that we pay! that bring in the money! how can we not know who they are?) was pretty stupendous, but we hashed it out. We're heading into the final stretch, having built up a decent head of steam, and one of the developers on the commissions system, who I've never spoken to, says "Which sort of gross do you mean?"
WTFuh-huh? We have different grosses? We polled a lot of people. They had no idea. That's the point at which you have to talk the stakeholders into going with what they already have, and not to get any big ideas this close to deployment.
God, that sinking feeling.