He maybe an assshole, but I have to admit that he forced us to take our game to the next level. His concern and our concern, at the end of the day, is one — be able to give the customer the best experience possible. We may have different ideas on how to achieve this, but that’s alright. In what we do, having loyal opposition is a good thing.
I blog on a Friday afternoon before I head home. I do this as a desperate cry for help. I hope and pray that somehow somewhere, someone is reading and maybe willing to take on the challenge.
What I am doing is like trying to grasp water with just my hands. The flow is just too much and in the end I’m left with nothing. I’m not used to doing this. I want to deliver each and every thing that I do with as much attention to detail as i can. I like to do things really well, but how can I even think of that with all the stuff I’m trying to balance?
With a fresh resignation letter on my desk, I believe it’s time to say no for a change. For quality’s sake. For the users’ sake. For the company’s sake. For my own sake.
With everything happening all at the same time, how I wish I have Hiro Nakamura‘s ability to suspend time. I’ve been juggling a lot of projects that, in the end, hardly each one moves. I don’t want it to be this way. I actually hate it — that I’m the bottleneck, that I’m hardly in control of these thins, that my output is mediocre. That is just not my style. If I had Hiro’s powers, then I would suspend time until I’m finished and content with all my assignments.
Now that the project managers are turned over to me, I am going to fast track the transition so I could transfer some of my load to them. We’re also hiring new ones on a project-based basis so that would help a lot. I just hope that it could all happen right now when it’s badly needed.
My hair is turning white. I can see it now. The experts would say that the cause of this are my genes, but from what’s happening now I’d say there’s something more.
For now, I’m just thankful that it’s the last day of the work week. At least, even for a while, I can suspend worrying about the deadlines and live my life for two days. And no, I don’t want to think about Monday.
I really hate this 150MB email capacity that we have in the office. My thumbdrive has a bigger capacity than that! Heck, even my cellphone’s internal memory is bigger! We’re supposed to be heading the digital initiatives of this company and yet this policy still dates back to last decade. If their IT cannot handle that, then just move everything to Google Apps! It’s free and it has gigabytes and gigabytes of space for each account.
