Man, I am skidding into winter sideways this year. I feel like a cat trapped in a room with a dozen snickering teenagers who all just got laser toys. Got it! Don’t got it! Got it! Don’t got it! HEY! WHERE DID THAT ONE COME FROM?! Wait, what the…but…I HAD that one! How did it get away AGAIN?!?!
I keep telling myself that things are going to settle down “soon” and will find their new center “soon” and etcetera “soon.”
And then Life snickers, “Well, ACTUALLY…!” and tosses me yet another ball to juggle.
Like last week, when right when I was congratulating myself on having sidestepped ending up in a sort of ‘first among equals’ role on my new SCRUM team – which was a bit of a dirty pool move on my part anyway, seeing as how I’m one of only two ‘level five’ developers in the whole department – I was unceremoniously shoved into the role.
I can’t argue with the call. It needed to be made – we were going to be in a world of hurt unless somebody was put into that role, and frankly there wasn’t anybody else who had the combination of skills and attitude (just call me Bossy McAttitude Pushy-Pants) to take it on.
Still. It’s also like…great. So now, I have all of “my” work, plus I have to do at least a quarter of everybody else’s in the form of “spelling it out for them, step by bloomin’ step, so that they feel comfortable enough to keep moving instead of freezing up like baby rabbits confronted by wolves…”
On the bright side, though, it also puts me in a great position to work myself out of a job – there’s no shortage of smarts on my team, it’s just lack of experience and overall exposure slowing them down. I suspect they’ll come up to speed really fast, and I’ll be able to start showing them stuff that will look damned good on a resume, next time they’re looking for something new.
They’re good people. It’s not their fault they’re being shoved into a role they just aren’t ready for…methinks Management™ has mistaken “been here a long time” for “actually has development experience.” Because overall, the department has extremely remedial development skills – but a lot of people who know every last wart on the existing system.
They ain’t the same thing, folks.
Just sayin’.
It’s going to be an interesting couple of months. Again.
…is it totally wrong that I kind of wish things could be boring for a change…?
1 comment:
No, it's not a character flaw to wish things were boring for a while. It shows you are human.
I'd like a dose of boring, too, please. Just as I had organised my Christmas social life/necessary visits to my projects [delete as appropriate depending on who is listening], someone decides to rearrange the company. My business is moving to a different region, with the necessary changes in reporting times, etc, that entails. I've managed to keep the "Credit Control" trip to Glasgow (with requisite night on the town afterwards), but only by persuading my new boss that it'd be the perfect day to schedule our Q1 forecast review with him and his boss. I still get to go play in Yorkshire but my trip to Manchester was originally a training day followed by dinner with the team and then a visit to my project up there on the Friday for a catch up (aka lunch) has now been curtailed. I have to be in Glasgow on the Friday for a very important meeting. Bother!
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