So with the responsibility…
Something really hilarious is happening in work.
Once I made my decision I felt about a half day of plain old lame duck whineyness. But in the last 48 hours I’ve become more abrupt, effective, intolerant of time wasting foolishness.
In essence it’s like what happened to me after 9/11. My bullshit tolerance coefficient has dropped to near zero.
There’s a nasty production problem we’ve been chasing around for about a month. We’re currently at the stage where we need to install test code on the client’s machine as it’s otherwise proved irreproducable.
This requires access to their rep on our side, who’s busy as hell.
But we’ve been catching epic flak about not having fixed the problem by now.
This morning I sent an email to 3 bosses (my old, her replacement, and their boss) as well as two people on the business side expressing my impatience. I added to this that if they want me to work on this, I need the rep to call me with time he’s available and that I have far too much to do to be chasing him around.
He’s not a bad guy at all. He’s just a rep on the trading floor so he’s continually assaulted with business. No problem at all. He wants me to give him more time. Again, not an issue.
But do NOT tell me I’m not handling the problem because he’s not available.
An hour later I received an apologetic phone call from the business product owner.
It feels good to be free.
Hmm…. I just realized that it’s not “similar to” what happened after
9/11…
Yeah, wow. I just figured something important out.
This is going to take some thinking doing.
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