Crunch Time at Work / New Computer?
September 02, 04 by kenrichToday is a pretty hectic day. It’s funny when people bring you 5 new
projects to work on at the same time and then act surprised when you don’t get it done in one day. Everytime a boss or project manager walks by me, I always hear… “Is it done yet?”. I am getting directions from 4 different people for 6 different projects. We have 4 generals here and only two soldiers.
The funny part is half the time I have no idea which project they are referring to. Sometimes I just pick one of my favorite projects (such as one which I have made some definiite progress on) and respond “yeah, almost done!”.
One thing my former boss did which was pretty cool was limit each of us to a specific division. But with all of the programmers who have left and with our new boss here - I am left to work on all different projects often at the same time. And my computer here is an old Pentium III - 1GHz which doesn’t allow me to open five different solutions in Visual Source Safe. Oh well, at least my boss
has a 3GHz Pentium IV with hyperthreading so he can send e-mails for new projects to me faster!
