You know that feeling when you quit your job and you have to see the remainder of a month out, or whatever the period you may have decided with your soon to be ex boss. That "I just want to get out of here and start fresh, with new promises and better colleagues".
We have all tried it, ok it is going on 10 years since my last resignation, but I do remember the feeling.
Thing is right, I am working on a project for a customer at the moment, where both the technical and the business responsible's have quit. I have kind of been left all alone. I don't feel sorry for myself or anything, but it really does suck.
I have the feeling that both of them are putting in the very minimum, I suddenly have twice the tasks assigned and when I went in today to finally have some "alone time" with the business guy, he spends it complaining that he has too many tasks to test (I submitted 15 new on Wednesday, which I coded my head off to reach the deadline for test start). To make matters a little worse he complained even more about how long it was until lunch, after which he promptly said his tasks were to complex (he is primarily testing) to complete in an afternoon, and buggered off home.
But ok he did come into the
office as promised and he did answer the most important stuff, so I got some work done. He also managed to pawn 3 new tasks on me, but fair is fair I guess, and I had someone to eat lunch with.
As for the other chap? He didn't make it as far as the office. I got a message that he would be working from home for a bit. Thing is I can see who is online and between 9am and 3:30pm, it was me and my hungry tester. Well it does suck to have to work on a Friday, when we had off yesterday.
No hard feelings then, well except that he has now managed to bail on 3 weeks worth of meetings. Guess his excuse book will soon be running on empty sooner or later, I can only hope.
But that's the problem. They don't give two shits. They have a new job. This project can tank and they will simply blame apartheid or colonialism. It isn't so easy for those left behind.
So just to end off this little rant, I would like to say "Sorry Peter Bolgann, Dick Putter, Hendrik Fourie, Malcolm Thomson, Edgars IT, Mercantile Lisbon IT and all the other people I may have left in the shit".
...Nokia N95 8GB 3 - 1 iPod Touch (thanks Panoman and 505)