Friday, March 27, 2009

Arg

Some days I'd rather be sitting in the sun watching girls in bikinis and taking apart a lawn mower. Our new upper management at work are being royal dumb fucks, constantly asking for updates and estimates on how long work is going to take. We've told them 317 times that we don't know and can only give really rough estimates. Shut the fuck up already!!! Then our manager directly above us sounded surprised when I said that there could be a few months worth of work left to do after we get the first alpha build to Testing, even though we told him this same exact thing many times before. Jesus titty fucking christ. Leave us alone and we'll get the work done. It's as simple as that. Really.

And my fucking DOS box has been running about as fast as a dead Microsoft engineer's body can decompose (which is really slow with all that tofu and Diet Coke in there). It's been over 30 minutes since I hit Build, and only 1 source file needed to be compiled. The rest of the time has been spent creating some stupid browse info file. Yup, that makes testing and debugging on Windows a total joy. Praise the lord. Corn bread for the chillun. Lucky for me, Windoze usage isn't something I have to do very often.

Gladly, there are funny things on TV. We TiVo'd Better Off Ted and watched that last night. Funny as shit. Portia DeRossi as a cold–hearted bitch, but isn't afraid of trying to be human once a day or so. It's very smart humor, like Arrested Development. Go read the quotes. The Office was great, as always. My Name Is Earl was also fantastic, mainly because this episode didn't focus on Earl. I found it harder to like his character after finding out Jason Lee is a prick.

Update: I decided to see if my DOS box's drive needed to be defragged. We OS X users forget that shitty OSs don't do that for you. Yeah, 3000 fragments for some big ass file is probably a bit much. So there goes more productivity while I wait for the defragger to run.

3 comments:

torgo said...

You need a boss like mine. When our major client gets all, "Give us an estimate before we give you complete specifications!" she's the blast-shield between me and them.

It helps that she used to be a developer, and is a good geek. Any boss that gets jokes involving Usenet references is a good boss to have. :)

Armpit Studios said...

But does she read alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die? :) Our boss is a geek too, but he's a lousy manager. No balls. Afraid to speak up to his overlords.

torgo said...

I don't know about her position on Wesley-ness, but she'll lay the smackdown when customers make unreasonable requests. She has the hubris that makes a good geek, so she knows she's always right. ;)