Tuesday, November 06, 2007
The bitter with the sweet
No I haven’t been consumed by the fires, but I have been consumed by work. Ugh. It went from being really laid back to “oh my god we have ten million things to do in a week!!!” As is the nature of the web development business, we often don’t get all the information and content we really need until it gets really close to the deadline. The bastards take their time, change their minds a thousand times about everything, and then expect us to magically pull a working website out of our asses by their ridiculous deadline. And because this site is supposed to be ready for some convention, the deadline is tighter than my pants after Thanksgiving.
Normally we can push back and say, “Nuh uh, you gave us this crap late, so we have to adjust our timelines accordingly.” Not this time. This time, we had to work long hours AND come in on the weekend. Friday I worked 12 hours. Saturday I worked 10 hours. Sunday I worked 7 hours. Not. Fun. At all. Of course the company doesn’t mind doing that to us because we’re salary, so no overtime pay. *grumble*
On the bright side, the company’s Christmas party this year is going to be in Las Vegas, and they are paying for everyone’s room for one night at the Mandalay Bay! Woohoo! I’ve never stayed there before, so it should be fun. I wonder if it’s as shiny on the inside as it is on the outside?
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