Rant: I love last minute tasking…
…with bare bones details and scope.
Get an urgent request at noon yesterday for a slide deck needed by 10 am this morning.
I couldn’t stay late yesterday, so I worked three hours on it, coming in super early this morning to give myself four or five more hours to hash it out.
It’s a brand new project, in the very early stages of development, and the boss has to give a presentation on what it is. An overview the phases, what the developers are working on, all that jazz. Screenshots of the UI.
So I cobble something together try to make it as pretty as I can. I don’t really know how in-depth they want the details. Made it sound like it was more of a high-level view with so many details still being vague, as the developers haven’t started engaging stakeholders yet.
So I go into hyper focus mode, bust my ass to pull together a 30 slide deck. I turned it in on time, only to be met with a lukewarm reaction at most.
A half-assed thank you, clearly disappointed I didn’t pull a unicorn out of my ass when I was fed a donkey.
Days like this make me question whether I want to do this anymore. About 90% of that information, the boss didn’t know until I gave it to them. And now somehow they’re gonna act like I didn’t give them what they wanted? They didn’t even know what they wanted in the first place.
I’m leaving for a week vacation tomorrow. Nice way to start. I’m gonna spend this week thinking about whether I’m going to stay when I come back.