Imponderables: Autumn Arrives
POSTED BY: nvghostrider
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 20:51
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Originally posted by MSB:
Yeah while I was working on my reply he went and created a new thread...
MUSHY ALERT
However he's so amazingly wonderful it's all good
MUSHINESS ENDS
Hmm Zeek have you considered learning to knit??
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.”-Dave Barry
Murder Death Kill John Spartan?
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You probably shouldn't emcourage me to mayhem... really pissed at another consultant who went bonkers 'cuase stuff from one office got moved to hers and she pitched a fit and now our boss( the micro manager) is all upset and we can't so much as move a file without her approval... plus I got to spend my lunch moving furniture( sigh I was so excited that I might get time for lunch)and I got to be blamed and criticized for the previous funriture moving because I happened to be in the office when the tech moved it ( under orders from someone else that I won't rat out 'cause she doesn't deserve to get yelled at) and apparently my presence was enough to make me the one who authorized it...sigh
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.”-Dave Barry
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You know what's fun? Leaving a shit-ass job because the execs fucked it up so badly, and yet not having your email address removed from the "Staff" list. I get all kinds of fun emails, sometimes just notices about the pizza being delivered and in the conference room, and sometimes things like what I got today: a request for feedback from the team on a very well thought out 5+ page analysis of the product from an outside consultant.
This consultant happens to be someone I know and trust and have worked with before, and who is generally frickin awesome. We haven't talked about the specifics of this product since the very beginning of its life, around the beginning of this year. And in her incredibly detailed 5+ page analysis she points out everything that I spent 8 months telling the execs was fucked up about their product. Everything! It's so nice to see, especially since I'm totally not suppose to be seeing it. And since I know her rates are pretty steep (and deservedly so), it fills me with glee to know that they paid her for that opinion, on top of paying me for 8 months of my opinion.
Now I get to continue to lurk on the Staff email list and see what happens next. I really hope someone replies to all with their thoughts on her feedback. It'll be interesting to see if they take any of it to heart -- my guess is no. So entertaining.
Glee!
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Oh mega glee CK... That definitely deserves a Nelson -esque HA HA!!
So I wonder what their excuse to teh higher ups will be...see we hired this person and she told us all this is wrong but we didn't believe her so we hired a consultant who just told us the exact same thing...
HUGS CK
OK I'm going to lunch now
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.”-Dave Barry
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I wish I could do that when they finally decide to just totally eliminate my department. We've been shrinking ever since I got here and sounds like we'll shrink down to 2 people next year. I wonder if they realize they're handing us all the power? Pretty much that will leave us with no one left who knows what either of us do and how we get our product out the door. It will be interesting to see if I decide to just say something like "hey I'm thinking of finding a new job unless you make it worth my while to keep you from having to explain to upper management why you just killed the release" 
I'm sure eventually they'll just decide they don't need me at all and then when they find out why they need me there will be emails flying all over the place trying to figure out how to recreate everything. It would be great to be a fly on the wall at that point.
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It's a very small company MsB, so the higher ups were the fuck ups, no one above them. There's the Venture Capitalist firm that backed the company to begin with, but they've been a delightful combo of idiotic and hands-off, so either they don't know what's going on or they don't care. They've also pissed literally millions of dollars away on the stupidest shit since the very beginning, so I'm not sure my 8 month salary even makes the list.
So, thinking about this actually leads me to a ponderable. See, several other core team members left about the same time I did, because of the aforementioned fucked-up-ed-ness. A couple of people we were friends with are still at the company for various reasons, so along with still being on the Staff list, it's pretty easy to hear about what's going on internally currently.
Now despite the glee above, I actually don't spend much time thinking about those guys, but everyone else who left recently seems to still be thinking about it. And talking about it. And rehashing what happened. I just don't care. I want to move on and forget about it already!
It occured to me the other day that this is a bit like breaking up. When a break up (or divorce) happens, some people seem to want to dwell on it, to pick it apart and try to put it back together. I'm just not like that. When it's over, it's over, I'm done, I'm out of there. No more thinking about it, no more talking about it.
Hubby and I were waiting in line at Disneyland a few weeks ago, and heard a teenage girl on her cell phone, obviously in the midst of a break up. She kept saying that she thought he at least owed her an explanation. I kept thinking, no, he doesn't. It's over, move on. Knowing what he was thinking at that party when he wouldn't tell you or whatever the hell she kept crying about isn't going to make you feel any better in the longrun.
Anyhow, so the ponder: What's your breakup style? Do you prefer to make a clean cut, including changing your phone number and even friends to separate yourself from your ex? Or do you find you need more of a gradual disentangling of the relationship, kind of like the mirror image to how we usually ease into a relationship? Or something else?
~CK
You can't take the sky from me...
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Clean cut. Not changing numbers I've never hated someone I broke up with. If they needed to call me for something I'd still want them to be able to and I'd probably be willing to be there for them to some extent. At the same time I don't want to just chat. I don't want to be friends. I don't want that weirdness. If it's over it's over for good.
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Quote:Holy crap, that sounds exactly like what my company does.
Originally posted by MSB:
So I wonder what their excuse to teh higher ups will be...see we hired this person and she told us all this is wrong but we didn't believe her so we hired a consultant who just told us the exact same thing...
Maybe I really am CK...! XD
My guess is their "excuse" will be that the consultant is wrong, so they'll find a new one until they find one who'll tell them what they want to hear. At least, that's how my company operates. ((snerk))
..."break-up style"...? Not qualified to comment.
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Clean cut and cold. I made a weeks worth of meals, did the laundry, packed my things, moved my stuff all before he got home. Then I basically said this doesn't work for me bye. walked out and never looked back. The divorce took 2 months from start to finish...I'd rather just be done with it. All that rehashing is pointless. Done is done.
hmm so a California/Ninja/Kaylee/Hell's Kitten melange???? eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
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Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.”-Dave Barry
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