Carpetbaggin
This week i will finally get to see a little bit more of St Louis than the airport, which i've layed over at a few times. And when i say "a little", i mean a courtyard marriott somewhere 20 minutes from the airport (to the southeast i think) and a client site nearby. And when i say "this week", i mean monday nite, when i fly in, and tues nite when i fly out. And when i say "see", i mean whatever i can view from the rental car during said journeys.
Which kinda sux, b/c i'd always hoped to someday check out the pig n whistle and buy the christy a long overdue drink. And i am sure that registering and managing my domain should get ben and tempe at least a nice dinner, kids included.
Well, hope this client becomes permanent, and then maybe i can make good.
Wherein Recalcitrant Passive Aggression Towards My Superiors is Yet Again Spawned
I am back in that nightmare, again, the one where i work endless days that bleed into one with no closure or sense of progress, nothing ever gets signed off, and just when you think you've reached a milestone, more shit gets added to the to-do list. Don't get me wrong - i can handle doing this for a couple weeks a month. But we've been going like this pretty much straight since mid-march. Myself and two of my cowerkers have all at one point or another over this time worked through previously scheduled vacations or family obligations.
And it didnt have to be like this. But anytime you have a project (internal or otherwise) with this one partner of ours, this is what happens. His expectations are impossible to manage, he hears what he wants to, even when you write things down and agree to them, and he fails to acknowledge when you might have competing priorities, even when you escalate them appropriately. And always, after weeks of being unavailable for meetings / design sessions / input, at the last minute, he will micro-manage content and processes and become the mother of all bottlenecks. His primary contributions to the work development are to ask for middle of the night status updates and renegotiations on timelines.
I'd bitch more, but i have work to do.