I had the worst work day yesterday. I walked in to find a voicemail from Sam that told me to stop working on the four reports I had to have designed by today and concentrate on finishing a report we had gone over last week. Since I didn't think there was a snowballs chance of him getting all the crucial people together, I left him a message saying I would continue working on the four reports until he actually had a meeting scheduled with all the crucial people, but if he couldn't put it together I didn't see why we should delay one of my other projects while I twiddle my thumbs waiting. I called the BA's for my other project giving them a heads up that this was happening and continued to work on the four reports (I was way behind on these designs, so if we were having the walkthrough I would not be caught with the work not finished). I told them if I had not heard by 4 pm we would have the walkthrough.
3:45 I get a call that we are going to have the extract summary review during the meeting for the four reports because all necessary parties are already there. First of all, the review for the four reports is a simple modification. No new fields to the database. It's only work intensive for me because the report screens themselves weren't designed. The new report includes fields we've never reported on before (leading me to believe these fields are not in the report table) and functionality that we're defining, but have not had developers look at and tell us if they can do. Developers weren't invited to this meeting. The short notice also means I most likely cannot get the documentation updated for the meeting either. So we're having a final walkthrough without development or my changes. I have a sinking feeling that we are either going to have quite a few changes when developers actually see it and I will have to rework a bunch of stuff or we'll need to have another meeting anyway. So this meeting is going to be a big fat waste of time. Nice. I was so angry and frustrated I left work. I called my mom and an hour later was sitting at a restaurant with a bloody mary. That definitely improved the day. I am calmer now, but if this report comes back with a lot of work later, I am going to remind Sam often (perhaps daily) that I was right and he was wrong. I may make it into a song.
3:45 I get a call that we are going to have the extract summary review during the meeting for the four reports because all necessary parties are already there. First of all, the review for the four reports is a simple modification. No new fields to the database. It's only work intensive for me because the report screens themselves weren't designed. The new report includes fields we've never reported on before (leading me to believe these fields are not in the report table) and functionality that we're defining, but have not had developers look at and tell us if they can do. Developers weren't invited to this meeting. The short notice also means I most likely cannot get the documentation updated for the meeting either. So we're having a final walkthrough without development or my changes. I have a sinking feeling that we are either going to have quite a few changes when developers actually see it and I will have to rework a bunch of stuff or we'll need to have another meeting anyway. So this meeting is going to be a big fat waste of time. Nice. I was so angry and frustrated I left work. I called my mom and an hour later was sitting at a restaurant with a bloody mary. That definitely improved the day. I am calmer now, but if this report comes back with a lot of work later, I am going to remind Sam often (perhaps daily) that I was right and he was wrong. I may make it into a song.
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