Yeah, that would be the primal scream of frustration.
That would be me, irritated at development, who persists in asking 'is this a large customer?' when contracts mean exactly jack shit to us (what, is this one of the questions we have to ask when troubleshooting now?), and when every client problem *should* be treated as something that could potentially happen to everyone. Granted, we do see a lot of corner cases, but that doesn't necessarily mean that one client's problem isn't *ever* going to be experienced by another client. That's just stupid.
That would be me, frustrated beyond belief at the lack of comprehension from people in building five. I don't get it. Does my email somehow just completely mangle itself as it moves between buildings? Does my voice mutate over the phone lines until I sound like some demented devil telling people to kill their children, drink their blood, and sacrifice their bodies to some nameless deity? No? Then someone please tell me why I say something simple like 'No, THAT is not the problem, THIS is the problem,' and it still ends up misunderstood? I've explained two separate situations to two separate engineers FOUR DIFFERENT TIMES. And they're STILL not getting it. *AND*, they're on my case about not giving them status updates to the questions they've asked, even though I repeatedly point out that the questions they've asked are completely unrelated to the problem.
I mean, when they can't tell me why they want a piece of information, or can't tell me how that piece of information relates to the problem? Somehow, I don't think I'm the issue here.
So looking forward to vacation. So do not want to attend the bug meeting today, because I know how pissed off it will make me.
I swear, one of these days, one of these assholes is going to make a felon out of me.
Raar.
:)
Posted by Liz at August 26, 2003 07:28 AM