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* Thursday, 01/17/19
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** 12:47 Micro
Conan is stepping in for Ness as a product manager for some of her projects
while she's on vacation. This is new. So far, he's demonstrated a complete lack
of planning on his part for what it means to take over a project, and has
resolved to simply slack people with requests for updates on things they're
working on, rather than review in flight tasks and project boards.

Some of this can be chalked up to the shitty state of our project tools and
documents. And yet, there's no effort made to bring everyone up to speed. Every
new project is a fire alarm with no regular cadance of creating goals, tickets
and kicking off work. I was pulled into the QRDA submission project with no
context whatsoever, and told to start swimming. I can swim. But it's hard to
swim when you don't know where you're supposed to be going.

It's gotten to the point where I only barely care anymore. Which sucks, but
there we are. I have a one-on-one with Kyna this afternoon. She's going to be in
a shitty mood and be needling me about things I'm not doing right. There will be
nothing positive in our meeting. I will defend myself as best I can, and I will
lose because she's the owner of the company.

I would kvetch with Ed, but he's out today having slept poorly last night
because of lingering nerve pain. I will avoid complaining to anyone else. I
ought to be less negative. But as with Louis, I think once I start doing that,
the shit storm around you becomes more obvious and it becomes harder stay here.

I want to see it out. I enjoy most of my co-workers. I just wish people could
collaborate better. I wish when questions were asked people had prompt answers.
I wish there was better documentation for infrastructure and major projects had
kick-offs and planning. But I can't make all those wishes come true myself.

I should start with improving my own documentation. I realized there's no reason
my work log needs to be just for me. As a record of the things I go through to
fix problems it's useful, but it can also be a place to keep notes and ideas.
I'm going to put that into action, and duplicate in my org files.

I should also clean up after myself and make sure project docs are either up to
date, or called out as not up to date if I don't have authority to change them.

Yet. The micromanaging is still super painful. I'm not sure how other people
feel about it. If this is what Ness and Andrew deal with on a regular basis I
don't know why they're still here. Rox is leaving. That makes 4 senior
developers gone in 12 months and only one hire made. That's not great math.