Well, Now I'm Not Doing It.

1. Somewhere between 40 - 99% done, but no one actually knows because no one bothered to write a plan or any milestones and the stakeholders keep adding new features

2. Been in production for like…3 years but the stakeholders are using a maintenance contract to develop new features and don’t seem to be thinking about maintenance in the future when this agreement lapses in January.

3. Has all the project documents only in MS project format, which hasn’t been a tool my enemies at Microsoft have supported since last year so I can’t read any of the documentation because no one can go back into project and export the data because the program doesn’t exist anymore.

4. Only has as much attention on it as it does because my boss didn’t pay enough attention to it and thus caused the commissioner to go to our commissioner to complain about us.

After this weeks lunch explosion I’d like to get a proper lunch box because I’ve just been chucking my lunch items into a baggu and hoping for the best which has worked great up until now.

Compounding work issues, many of which could have been avoided if my department had leaders that would focus on setting forth any type of strategy or would attempt any of our processes plus vendor PMs who don’t know what basic industry standard artifacts are needing me to coach them on how to do their jobs. I’m sorry I shouldn’t have to give you a RAIDS template if you’re an alleged senior PM.

On Wednesday my lunch exploded in my bag on my commute and we had no paper towels in our kitchen (?!?!) so I had to bring both my backpack and my lunch into the bathroom to attempt to clean it up. Because of the alarmingly strong storms, I got stuck on the blue line for an extra hour wearing clothes that looked like I had jumped into a swimming pool as both my rain coat and my umbrella failed me immediately.

Somewhere in there I either have a cold or some allergy stuff going on and the wildly fluctuating pressure has triggered a dull headache that in on day 3 of.

And of course, the cherry on top is that our air conditioning was broken this morning (very thankful it wasn’t hotter!) and it only took $1600 to fix.