I learned a new blues progression, though, does that count?

So in my frustration I called the hiring manager for my job (since my current boss is out of town). He says he's heard nothing about a hiring freeze, and so far as he knows the process is going forward.

Argh, indeed. On Friday it will be a month since I interviewed.

Now the developer has sent an email saying she worked out what is the problem (and it has nothing to do with me, remarkably) and I don't have the energy to read it. I think I'll read the scary stuff from the new director who wants things from me I don't understand. Yeah, I'll do that instead.

I don't know why "explanation of benefits" never occurred to me. Thanks!

On Friday it will be a month since I interviewed.

Ugh.

I think I'll read the scary stuff from the new director who wants things from me I don't understand. Yeah, I'll do that instead.

Maybe with a tasty muffin?

Consuela - Amy has it right with Ugh.

I still don't have the answers I need on the project I'm covering on. I think everyone but me is in a client meeting. I have given a gal a couple of excel lessons on conditional formatting and the iferror function. Joy.

Incompetent!developer is incompetent.

Of course, so am I today, but I don't have any coworkers around to complain about it. The SO is out feeding China Wok to the high schoolers at the moment.

I think part of my problem is that I have the NAS setup stuff running in the background, so I just keep obsessively checking that, which *feels* like work, but isn't actually.

And I can't work out a problem I have with the current cigar box build, so my spare time brain is occupied too.

AND there's all this other background emotional stuff going on. No wonder I can't focus. Time for the timer, for the rest of the day, I think. 'Cause, shit, from Friday on I will be completely busy through spring break.

Boy, do I have my co-workers fooled. The head of our QA department was crutching her way to door on her way out, paused by my desk and said, "I heard the nicest thing about you today. They said you were kind and sweet and approachable." I blinked and said, "And they work here?" She grinned and said, "Yes."

And now I'm wavering between "Oh, how nice!" and "My god, I have to revise my demeanor, or they'll all start talking to me!"

Amy has it right with Ugh.

And yet when I was originally hired, I think I interviewed in October and got the offer in mid to late December. So I guess I shouldn't be surprised? Sigh.

I am being marginally more productive today. Go me.

This gap between interview and answer wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for all the other crap you have been having to deal with and jump through.

During our last queue review (rolls right off the tongue...) meeting, I was asked which developer was appropriate to work on given project. Now, as noted, I don't know anyone's workload, or really even their knowledge base. I'm the least informed person on this front, yet the question was aimed at me.

Eventually, in the most non-assigning way ever, the project landed in incompetent developer's lap, and when I asked her if three days was enough time for her to read the requirements and do initial research, her reply was "That information isn't in X. How are you going to get it?"

WELL JESUS FUCK. Yes, it's totally my job as business analyst, even senior, to answer that for you. So, I say...it's in system Y. Ask other developer. And I cc other developer, because I know she's silent.

Other developer says he doesn't know system Y.

I'm back in the office now, walking from desk to desk (incompetent developer is at another site) asking if anyone knows system Y.

The one developer with nothing to lose since tomorrow is his last day says "If you say yes, she will will push you and ask you and drive you..."

Ah, you're so sweet. But I still got a developer who a) doesn't know system Y and b) is busy with stuff that's actually his job to promise to research Y and explain it to the incompetent chick on Friday. Thank god for puppy dog eyes and bulldog grimaces.

But I will tell everyone she's not a self-starter and I need them to get her started. Let's see how long she ignores this.