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Thursday April 06, 2006

Office Shenanigans...

Been a bit lax with my whinge of the week (whinge of the last two months!), and the blog in general, but I've been busy, yada yada, excuse, excuse... ;-)

My current pet hate is my wonderful colleagues, can I say that on here? Well, I'm going to. They're not that bad really...

It's just stuff like when you agree to help someone, and you agree to produce a document or similar. Fair enough. Then you read the email summary of the meeting and find that what you agreed has morphed into something much bigger. Grrrr. Solution? Offer to write the minutes. (Evil Grin - Bwah-ha-ha!).

Also the classic non technical evaluation of a technical thing, along the lines of....

"Yes, we can do that!"
"By and large it's straight forward."
"The technical team will be able to give you that immediately."
"Your product has an API does it? Great, no problem then."
"Nothing much has changed, we don't need to retest it."
"How difficult can it be?"

Of course, us techies try to give sensible, intelligible and above all, realistic answers to these questions and attempt to clarify the grey areas, which results in...

"You're being a bit negative aren't you?"
"We all need to be team players."
"I think we're all violently agreeing with each other."
"I don't do detail."

Has anyone got a sure fire way to kill a cliché? I'd love to know!

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