grrrrrrrr

[susandennis]

So... the intranet redesign saga continues. My manager who insisted on a set of design rules (different colors for different areas, no icons to identify different types of documents, descriptions of every link) today - after I've built more than half of the stupid thing out, decides that she doesn't want a color scheme, she does want icons for different docs and no descriptors.

This will be about the 4th time she's completely changed the design. She's paying my salary and I should be happy to do whatever she wants. And I try to be... honestly... but I am really tired of doing it all over and over and over again.

Oh and remember the emergency review she laid on my last month? Well, she finally got around to scheduling it - next Tuesday. 3-4. She really is making me nuts. And I had a head start!

But, thank you 1forward2back! The weather has taken a nice little turn in Philadelphia and the game started on time. It's 1-0 Mariners in the 1st.

And tomorrow is Friday and I don't care how much work needs to be done, I am taking my afternoon off. So there!

Comments

Feh...Let her change the design as much as she wants

[biggeek.livejournal.com]

Just make sure you have her verify and document, document, document all her revision changes.

Cover thy ass, since thee verily seemed to be working under a compulsive/retentive micro-manager.

Taunting them can be fun.

Try spilling out a file-folder full of papers on the floor by your chair and leaving it while you work. Then say "Thanks, I'll get to it in a moment...This (motion twards the work on your screen) is critical" when they point out the mess.

Politely defer them if they attempt to pick up the mess.

Then watch them compulsively and frantically pass by your space again and again.

Move the spilled documents around slightly between passes for extra bonus disturbing points.

Enjoy!