Thursday, May 29, 2008

Read the Frickin' Manual

I was clear. I was very, very clear. I wrote: "I need release dates for all of your projects as milestones." Everyone on the team agreed that a milestone has a duration of 0 days. Yet *everyone* left either 1 day or a span of days in that field. This is your job people - learn it. If you don't know it by now - at LEAST read what I wrote! I even provided examples. Is no one trainable?!



Open memo to our QA team: It's not a successful test if something failed. Do not tell me that the test cases all completed successfully if you haven't bothered to read the log and see that two sessions failed. Can you not read? If you can't read, do you not understand the big red "X"?! And really, why are you in QA if you can't read?



And to the guy who's e-mailing me RIGHT NOW: I told you where the document is located in the shared directory, I told you to update it, you righteous dastard, I'm not your g-d admin, update it yourself. READ the note I sent if you didn't listen to the instructions when I gave them verbally during the meeting last night.



Why can no one pay attention anymore? Are you too busy reading the newspaper online, multi-tasking during conference calls, your eyes don't see bold print?! Honestly, I'm pretty sure that movie Idiocracy is occurring right before my eyes in real life.



Next Up: I'd take a vacation, but then I'd have to answer my phone

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