*hugs for Limer*

My God, that girl freaking drives me crazy! This is the second time in a row that she has insisted that we have a staff meeting and then, the morning of, she's too "sick" to come in! This is beginning to get really, really old.

*hugs Limer*

Is raising the issue with someone an option/worth the trouble? If you have a more or less good relationship with somone either at the agency or the council I'd absolutely mention it. Nicely first, to suss it out.

*hugs Limertilly*

Gia, I sure hope your boss noticed. He seems to either not acknowledge this stuff or keep it to himself. Ridiculous! Why is she so keen on having a staff meeting anyway? She's hardly staff considering how little she bothers showing up.[/snarky]

So. Burned. Out.

*sighs*

*hugs Mattvid* I hear you there.

Weeble, I just don't know. Right now, I'm pissed, pissed, pissed at her. She didn't do her fucking job on Monday and now I'm stuck cleaning up the mess. The artistic director is going to come in pissed and one of the poor dance teachers is stuck with a class of 14 6-year-olds today! All because J couldn't make a stupid phone call on Monday.
Need I mention that when I came in, she kept telling me how it was dead all day and she wanted to pull her hair out? If it was so dead, why didn't she make this phone call??! Why is she leaving me with her garbage??!

Gah! So there's this new office the company set up in Romania, selling it as a great move, when we all know it's just because it must be dead cheap to set up anything over there.

They JUST opened and now they have their first project, so they're in charge of this WHOLE game. It was going fine until we realised the issues we were raising (stuff that needs to be fixed in the game, which we log on a special database) got fixed surprisingly quickly, and too many of them had comments along the lines of "Couldn't reproduce this, it must be fixed" (the actual words for one, which I'll use for a t-shirt one day, were, 'I doens't couldn't reproduced, work fine!!'.)

Surprise surprise, nothing was fixed -they just couldn't understand what we wrote. So we have to update the issues, saying "Actually, it's not fixed" and provied a new set of steps to reproduce and hope they understand it this time. Which is annoying enough, but hey, it's ok. They're new, and don't speak English that well.

But now they asked, could we provide pictures of ALL the issues of concern? Because they STILL don't understand what we're saying! So now every time there's something that needs fixing, I have to log it a susual, and then to go to my team lead, ask her to take the pictures with another phone and then upload it on the computer and then onto the database, and add it to the description. Which probably will happen around 10 times a day... And everyone in the team must do that... And it still won't help, because even though you SEE what is wrong in the screen, you need to understand HOW I got to that point to know what to fix!

I'm so angry, not at the poor guys in Romania, but at the stingy chimp who decided to set up an office there without cheking their language skills first, and at the gigantic idiot who said "Ok, let's give these guys who just started and don't even know the procedures a whole project of their own, with a tight deadline, and let's give them no training or instructions, and who cares whether they speak English or not, it will all fix itself on its own". AARGH!!!

*kicks, stomps, mashes*

and it will probably be released with a whole lot of issues still not fixed...

good luck with that.

Which is why I will pirate it first to see if it works/is finished/actually has a plot. Its a game not a graphics demo and I don't care how pretty it looks before it crashes. I also hate how EA and such exploit the hell out of their employees. I wish I could buy "Fair Trade" video games.

I'm a bit annoyed.

One of the dance teachers had to go home sick. So she had me call the artistic director with ideas of subs for her class.
I called the artistic director and she said "We'll cancel the class. I'll tell the students who come to technique (the class before the cancelled class) and whoever doesn't come, I'll come out and let you know and you can call."
She never came out, so I never called. So now I have a bunch of students standing here waiting for their parents to come pick them up. They all said "We should have gotten a call, but we obviously haven't yet."
So now all these parents are annoyed at me for not calling when I wasn't told to call!! This is at least the second time she's done this!

So, I come back to work and I find that there's only ONE new version of the game? And only 9 defects have been fixed, and all of them for upcoming versions of the game, so the only new version of the game available is actually THE SAME as the one we tested yesterday? Are you all a bunch of lazy idiots?

*hugs Clover*

Thanks *hugs back*

I'm better now after my coffee and wasting my time, in turn, on useless Internet sites.

*ebters zen-state of maximal corporate uselessness*

WHAT DO YOU MEAN; EVERYBODY WILL BE ABLE TO READ AND SEARCH EVERYBODY ELSE'S EMAILS?

Wow, Babs, that's...


*is speechless*

That is complete and utter bullshit. I'm so sorry you have to put up with such utter stupidity.

*Hugs Babylon*

*more hugs*
Have they given a reason for it?

that's close to being the stupidest thing I ever heard!

*fwaps StB's company*

Nah, it's just the usual run of the mill stupid management idea someone came up with.
What journalist wants other journalists to snoop about in her emails?

Lol

They don't know *anything*. I'm surprised this paper's still up and running.

Thanks, you guys.

Gah, Babylon, that sucks! Isn't there any kind of privacy law you can invoke? Or get the journo union in, or something? Everyone's contacts will be up for grabs!

The union's zooming in on it. Give them a few days, this is Austria. We don't move so fast. (any fast decisions are usually stupid ones.)
My boss is livid. Hee!