June 2nd 2006
hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we drag ourselves with heavy feet and heads
Back when I still worked, I used to get annoyed, pretty easily in fact, by projects that required me to work behind someone. I just really, REALLY hated having to pick up after someone else. (Invariably, I had to pick up after someone. Invariably.)
Today, I started a project that involves, essentially, picking up after other people. It’s not that these other people didn’t do their jobs, it’s just that they didn’t have time to finish those jobs, and now I have to finish them. Also, some of these jobs I’m working on were previously worked on by more than one person, and they produced materials that are not exactly the same. It really seems that, in some cases, the left hand not only didn’t talk to the right hand, but also didn’t even know the right hand was working on the same stuff! Argh!
So I have this pile of stuff that is the most frustrating stuff to work on EVER. Two hours of it and I wanted to throw my computer against a wall. I’m also not even close to being done, so I can look forward to days more of this–and to make it just that much better, I am not sure exactly what “this” will precisely entail. I have the sinking feeling I’m going to end up doing a lot of duplicate work over the next week or two.
Other than that, I am REALLY enjoying my summer.
