Yes Boys and Girls believe it or not Aunt Ing has managed to piss a few people off this week... Monday I sat in a meeting after a day of email after email asking me for information I simply did not have. And when I tried to get the necessary information the people who know... I either get a wrong or incomplete answer or the people who know are completely MIA. So I sort of lost my cool in the meeting saying - this information is crap and I need to know the right information to answer these questions...
Round and round we went and finally I got 3 basic steps and I can work from that.
Tuesday morning my company boss brought in doughnuts and said he did indeed sympathize with the plight. thanks John...and doughnuts to a woman facing chubby girl surgery... really?? I had half. Which is a major improvement for me - normally there would have been at least 1 maybe 2. ;-)
Fast forward to Tuesday afternoon, meeting with generally unhappy customer, newly assigned testers from another (better In My Opinion) tester - but this project sat around so we moved him to be productive...
So we get to the bottom of the meeting and I say you can get this done in a week, 12 June - no they lost Tuesday it was 3:00 PM the 13th - these people have NO concept of keeping a customer happy or good PR. GIVE the day and if you need an extra day- you have documented along the way and the customer is happier for your having TRIED. But come Wednesday morning - I'm in the lead tester's office getting another talking to... we had chat Monday because he didn't like how I edited documents.. yeah I put too much red all over them..
So by Wednesday morning we had 2 - yes 2 chats with Lead Tester and manager over testers because he was protecting his people - Tuesday morning I got a yeah I get it - (aka engage filter) chat with company boss - and it wasn't even lunch time Wednesday.
Then the real fun - back to the surgeon's office for final prep and check only she didn't tell me it would be 3 HOURS at this appointment... and I didn't eat lunch thinking it would be 1 hour tops plenty of time to deal... let me just say I BLEW the diet that afternoon. I found only missing 3 things, 2 of which required phone calls and a fax, and one which required an appointment... The appointment is set, and in true aunt Ing fashion - I have a problem child with one of the phone calls which I punted to the surgeon... YOU deal with this...
No word on insurance approval yet - so cross your fingers.
Now in a fire suppression move I had a massage last night - and you know life is not going your way when he says "My god what are they doing to you?" Yeah I carry it in my shoulders. I was mush when he was done... slept like the dead.
Thursday has been a bit better, I went into my defensive crouch and stayed there. I did make an attempt to talk to tester I had words with Wednesday but every time I went over to her desk - she was gone... she came to me today.. we talked past each other and moved on... mostly. She probably still thinks I'm the big B - and I know she needs the full kick in the pants to keep moving forward.
For those of you playing the in-laws travel game - right now late Thursday afternoon - no word as to cancellation... so I have to go home and clean house... yeah. I figure about the time I'm done and ready they will call and cancel.
And a final bit of good news - no liquids for a week... just 1 day - then the ever popular "cleansing" of ones inners... yeah... but I get basically 80 grams of carbs a day and 100-120 grams of protein. I might as well be drinking food.
Stay turned for the Girl's Group melt down and other fun stuff making life oh-so entertaining....
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