{"id":42,"date":"2003-02-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-25T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/blog\/?p=42"},"modified":"2003-02-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-25T16:00:00","slug":"42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2003\/02\/25\/42\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to: My spleen burst while venting to myself<\/p>\n<p>\nSometimes, my morning spam gives me a chuckle, today it gave me a laugh. The subject was &#8220;Deep Fisting Rodeo &#8211; Yee-hahh!&#8221;, and I will confess my right-brain kicked in for a second. I just have a hard time picturing a group of folks sitting around a table throwing catchy phrases around on how best to pitch a fisting site. While I didn&#8217;t check the site out, it did catch my attention and my sense of humour (twisted).<\/p>\n<p>\nSo how do you tell people who know nothing about you that you&#8217;re not a total retard? The project I&#8217;m working on is seriously fucked up, and has been for quite some time by the looks of it. I&#8217;ve been evaluating the whole package since I was put on it in mid-December, and I can honestly say the people who brought the product suite into this &#8216;lil old world of ours should be taken out, shot, pissed on, and never spoken of again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nService expectations weren&#8217;t set with the customers or the internal groups &#8211; the Internet ain&#8217;t dial tone, and a 20 minute delay from the time you send mail to your account when load is high happens. At least we&#8217;re not like Videotron, Sympatico, and other groups that can have delivery delays of twelve hours or more, but I digress. Let&#8217;s just say it&#8217;s pretty fucked up. So me, being who I am, have started telling people it&#8217;s fucked up and we should really re-think what we&#8217;re doing. I have since discovered that being the new guy and bringing comments like this into the fold is a bad thing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m the messenger, and I&#8217;m also the <i>fifth<\/i> person to lead this project over the past fourteen months. No wonder it&#8217;s a mess. In any case, one of our VP&#8217;s sent an email that told me exactly how I was to proceed. I felt like I was back in grade school getting punished for something someone else did. In response, I totally surprised myself. I got a little pissed, but instead of saying &#8220;fuck you&#8221; and looking for another job I said &#8220;fuck you, I&#8217;m gonna show you how wrong you are&#8221;. It&#8217;s almost like I&#8217;m growing up or something. Unlikely for sure, but it&#8217;s a possibility. I&#8217;ll stick this one out until things are running sweetly, then think about bailing. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to: My spleen burst while venting to myself Sometimes, my morning spam gives me a chuckle, today it gave me a laugh. The subject was &#8220;Deep Fisting Rodeo &#8211; Yee-hahh!&#8221;, and I will confess my right-brain kicked in for a second. I just have a hard time picturing a group of folks sitting around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}