Meetings
Posted: Tue 17 March, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts, Work-related | 3 Comments »In my current job, I feel DiamondGeezer‘s pain about meetings at inopportune times.
Not today – thank the Lord – but in the last six months I’ve been involved in more pointless and dire meetings than I had in the previous two years. Total nightmare – I just don’t understand the need to have meetings about meetings about something that might be discussed in a meeting at some point.
Meetings at that level always just strike me as work-creation – and/or blame avoidance tactics, so anyone can point the finger and say “Well it wasn’t me who made the decision”. I prefer a company that just sits down, has a think, makes the decisions, and sticks to them.
Quiet, and head down
Posted: Mon 16 March, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Web Development, Work-related | Leave a comment »It’s been one of those quiet days today – well, on D4D™, anyway.
Within work, I’ve had my head down, fixing a bundle of bugs on the latest thing I’ve been writing. Nothing world-ending, but still stuff that needed fixing.
Most of the problems came about because on occasion I’m a total flange, and screwed up some of the logic between Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the project. In short, the logic in certain pages has become so convoluted that I don’t really think it qualifies as logic any more.
In others it was more just that requirements changed, and I forgot to update things in accordance with those requirements. Or kind of updated them, but not entirely.
Still, finding these things is exactly what testing is for…
Out Of Reach
Posted: Fri 13 March, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Domestic, Technology, Work-related | Leave a comment »In a fit of utter tubularity, I’ve (yet again) managed to leave my mobile phone at home today.
It’s no big problem – in fairness it would have been more of an issue if I’d also forgotten (again) to bring a new book to work, as I’ve finished the two currently residing in my bag. I’m not expecting any calls today, I can live without text messages, and all is good.
All that, however, doesn’t stop me from occasionally thinking “Where’s my phone?” though…
A Good Start (pt. 2)
Posted: Wed 11 March, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Work-related | Leave a comment »Oh, and just to top things off…
- The animals were a pain in the arse this morning. I’m seriously considering using aversion therapy on them – i.e. cause them pain, so they stop doing the things that are truly annoying. I won’t, but dear God it’s tempting…
- Getting in to work early in order to get stuff done (and because I was awake an hour earlier than expected, due to the previous list item) it turned out that the entire IT department had no power. (There’d been a power cut at some ungodly hour this morning, and while most things were OK – including the server room- a couple of departments were knackered ’til people got in)
- The power was finally restored an hour later, by dint of having unplugged everything in the department, re-flicked the circuit breaker, and restoring everything desk by desk.
- We’re doing the mortgage application thing this afternoon/evening.
So yes, so far today is not going down as one of the better ones…
A Good Start
Posted: Wed 11 March, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Cynicism, Own Business, Work-related | 2 Comments »It’s obviously the month for bankruptcies and liquidations. Following on from my post the other day about a company I’d worked with going into Liquidation, I got a letter in the mail yesterday to say that my fucking accountant has filed for Bankruptcy, and is no longer part of TaxAssist.
I don’t quite understand how an accountant – someone who’s supposed to be good with money, and at least understands what the hell is going on – can go bankrupt, but that appears to be the situation. Even better, I’ve been paying through the year for my tax returns to be done – and now, just when they’re going to want doing, the fucker’s disappeared.
So yes, I’m a creditor of the accountant – I’ve paid about £6-700 all told (I need to check the sums) for him to do both personal and business tax returns – and I fully expect to get back a grand total of sod-all.
Today I need to talk to
- Companies House (to change the company’s registered address away from the accountant – another service I paid for)
- Inland Revenue
- The Bank
And that’s just for starters.
It’s going to be an utter fucker of a day, I suspect…
Time Zone Redux
Posted: Tue 10 March, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: Geeky, Own Business, Work-related | Leave a comment »Following on from yesterday’s altercation with GMT and a US-based server, I’m pleased to say that today the cron job ran – as expected, and as it should have done – at midnight GMT.
And really that’s all I wanted to happen.
Day’s Business
Posted: Mon 9 March, 2009 | Author: Lyle | Filed under: D4D™, Driving, Own Business, Work-related | Leave a comment »A quick braindump of today…
- The car passed its MOT with flying colours – no problems at all
- The afternoon was spent in an utterly useless meeting – absolutely no relevance to anything I do, so it was a real prize all told
- In the post the other day about Liquidation, I mis-wrote. I wasn’t worried at all about my own company’s potential for going into liquidation – that’s not going to happen unless I do something very stupid at some point in the future. The only point I wasn’t going to be ‘holier-than-thou’ about was that I can’t complain about another company not getting in the work when I haven’t been doing much for my own company either.
- I’m working on getting more work in
- I’m still a fuckwit when it comes to time-zones…