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People should learn to keep their noses out of other peoples business
Today really has been a tribute to my decision to leave work as I've had a crap day all around.
I've got a whole heap of rubbish that needs doing for one particular website, and I'll be honest it takes me 3/4 of the day to complete it. In the meantime I've had something else dumped on my plate too, but having to prioritise the work it will just have to wait.
I do get to start it at around 4 pm, but its a monster piece of work in itself, but I get on and start doing it and I'm making quite good progress up until the point where yet again someone wants to butt in and intervene. The person who gave me the work nonchalantly comes up to my desk and asks me if I've "done the work yet". To which I reply, no, I'm still working on it. I then get a snooty retort in the form of "well, you've had it for 4 hours already, what have you been doing all day?". Well that was enough for my boiler to burst big time and I replied without holding anything back.. something along the lines of "You know, I've not been sat on my arse doing Sweet FA all day. I've had other work to do, one piece of which has taken most of my day so far. I've only just got around to doing your piece of work and I've only been working on it for 30 minutes or so, so no, it's not complete and now you know what I've been doing all day, satisfied?". Well that raised a few eyebrows amongst the other developers, but it also go a "oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realise you had other stuff to do" response from the complainant.
So, I thought that was that and I'd be left to get on with it. But no, said person then comes over to me saying, I want you to use the layout I've done and for you to stop doing it your way, it's taking too long. Well excuse me if my way is the correct way and I take enough pride in my work not to cut and paste a table from word and dump it into dreamweaver and allow the horrific code it produces to seep its way into a page which already looks like it was built by a 2 year old on speed because the templating system they have for this website is *awful*.
But you know at this point I give up caring. I use his layout (effectively starting from scratch again) and as a consequence of which I don't leave work till 6pm.
Fantastic, another reason to be glad to be leaving.
Posted by Abi on the March 31, 2006 9:02 PM
Sometimes I think we are working for the same company. :)