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My Stress, Let Me Show It To You
Mar. 29th, 2010 05:17 pmDisclaimer: This is just venting because I need to blow off some steam. I'm very thankful that I have a job, especially this one because I really like it (most days). I am well aware of how lucky I am.
I should have worked over the weekend. I didn't because I pretty much put work out of my mind for a few days, doing yard and house work instead. But I really should have logged in and done some work-work.
There are only two of us that can code our IVR (automated phone) system. Well, 2.1. The third person is training but doesn't know enough to do more than add voice files, stuff like that. The other resource is currently swamped doing database design for the same project where I'm doing our IVR changes. There's also some extensive changes to some COM objects that I have to do as well.
Thinking ahead I was a good girl and blocked out two days last week to allow myself to dive in, headphones on, and program the shit out of this thing. I'm currently on way too many projects that all have the same freaking due dates so this is the only way to get things done - pretend I'm not here, don't answer the phone, block out my calendar, put up my "Go Away" sign and just code.
Guess what happened? Yep - there were "problems" in production. Crisis mode. And yours truly is the girl tapped to get everything fixed. I lost both Thursday and Friday to two separate emergencies. Nearly 16 hours that I had planned for doing this IVR stuff sucked into the black hole of production issues. *sigh*
Today has been better and I was able to tune out everything else for most of the day. I managed to pound out quite a bit of code but in the process found out that some of these changes are going to require entire rewrites instead of just tweaks. Not what I was hoping for, no. So by my best guesstimate I am about 20 hours behind. All this stuff is supposed to be to the tester when he gets here on Monday 4/5, which means that I will almost definitely have to work this weekend. (My losing two days doesn't change my to test due date. I asked.) A three day weekend as we have Good Friday off since the NYSE is closed. I was planning on re-staining my deck on Friday while the weather is nice. I may still be able to do that but this work stuff comes first.
So yes, my stress level is way up for a few days. I'm on my way to the gym because I can't go any further until I have data and for some reason my data isn't loading into the freaking database and both guys I need to talk to are gone for the day. Thus I hit the gym. Then home to a glass or two of wine and some more of Season 4 of Robot Chicken.
I should have worked over the weekend. I didn't because I pretty much put work out of my mind for a few days, doing yard and house work instead. But I really should have logged in and done some work-work.
There are only two of us that can code our IVR (automated phone) system. Well, 2.1. The third person is training but doesn't know enough to do more than add voice files, stuff like that. The other resource is currently swamped doing database design for the same project where I'm doing our IVR changes. There's also some extensive changes to some COM objects that I have to do as well.
Thinking ahead I was a good girl and blocked out two days last week to allow myself to dive in, headphones on, and program the shit out of this thing. I'm currently on way too many projects that all have the same freaking due dates so this is the only way to get things done - pretend I'm not here, don't answer the phone, block out my calendar, put up my "Go Away" sign and just code.
Guess what happened? Yep - there were "problems" in production. Crisis mode. And yours truly is the girl tapped to get everything fixed. I lost both Thursday and Friday to two separate emergencies. Nearly 16 hours that I had planned for doing this IVR stuff sucked into the black hole of production issues. *sigh*
Today has been better and I was able to tune out everything else for most of the day. I managed to pound out quite a bit of code but in the process found out that some of these changes are going to require entire rewrites instead of just tweaks. Not what I was hoping for, no. So by my best guesstimate I am about 20 hours behind. All this stuff is supposed to be to the tester when he gets here on Monday 4/5, which means that I will almost definitely have to work this weekend. (My losing two days doesn't change my to test due date. I asked.) A three day weekend as we have Good Friday off since the NYSE is closed. I was planning on re-staining my deck on Friday while the weather is nice. I may still be able to do that but this work stuff comes first.
So yes, my stress level is way up for a few days. I'm on my way to the gym because I can't go any further until I have data and for some reason my data isn't loading into the freaking database and both guys I need to talk to are gone for the day. Thus I hit the gym. Then home to a glass or two of wine and some more of Season 4 of Robot Chicken.
