Give Me a Break

Today I had a conversation with a co-worker about the fact that elderly people have been calling up to complain out our application because they don’t know what to do when they encounter something like the following:

Select One
Option A
Option B

OR enter your own:

I say if you can’t figure that out, you shouldn’t be on the internet. Log off now. I suggested that we add a link to our site that says: if you are over 80 years old, click here. And my co-worker says and the link will go to oursite-for-dummies.com.
hahahhhaahhaha.. I am evil. I’m usually a strong advocate for not making the site confusing for the users (despite how much easier it may be for the developers to code it that way), but there has to be a line - a minimum of knowledge should be able to be assumed.

Is it bad..

to write your self evaluation after drinking too much because it’s due in the morning and this is the only time you’ve had to do it… let’s consider that your manager probably won’t even read it, and will just cut and paste whatever you write into whatever form they need to fill out, so you might as well just make yourself seem super human (because in your current state, you believe you are and either way your raise will be minimal due to economic factors).

I’m tired..

so the launch went on into the wee hours of the morning. Nothing ever goes as planned.. but that is life. Let the blamestorming begin! Somehow I am at work today (though I didn’t get here until 1pm), whereas most people involved in the launch took the day off, but I am taking tomorrow off instead to make a 4 day weekend. Yeehaw!. As you can see I have nothing really to say as not all synapses are firing at full power. But Town Without Pity made me laugh today.

Angst..

I think some in my group have pre-launch anxiety because there is a full out search for whomever put the yellow stickies on the antique chairs. Whose writing is this? Why would someone do that? It’s too funny. As if the person who did it will be admiting it now.

There once were a pair of chairs..

and they were lovely chairs that sat outside a conference room… looking for all the world like decorations as there would be almost no reason for anyone to sit in them in their current location. Never the less.. today appeared on each chair a yellow post-it announcing: This is an antique chair, do not sit. So if it’s an antique chair, not for sitting, one could assume that it’s there for it’s aesthetic value and beauty - the same aesthetic value and beauty which is now ruined by a stupid yellow post-it.

Tech Translation..

A new defect was reported in our application - a defect that had already been entered and was supposed to be fixed long ago. Emails are sent, tempers flare. The tech leads first response to almost every defect is: I can’t reproduce it, so it’s not a defect.. however, many times the defects do rear their ugly heads later. The QA lead has lost patience with our friend, the tech lead and thus we have this email exchange:

QA: Please don’t even go down that road!!! This is the same way we went last time we found this NONE of these will be reproducible!!!
Tech: We are looking into it, but sometimes weird stuff happens once in the internet space…
QA: translation: “…..I don’t have time for this I need to go smoke”

Wo-ho!

a work related conference call at 8pm on a Friday night. Could my life could be any cooler? I think I’m the only female on this call… why do guys yell on conference calls? I’m going deaf.

I Am Displeased

because I am at work. Same shit, different year.