I hate it, but my boys once again deleted the history and lost my saved password. It took me forever to get a new one (my fault). Things are changing here again. My daughter moved back home (again) and they boys have to share a room again. My place doesn’t have a basement so they cleaned up the garage and made a place to watch TV, play video games, etc. At least it gets the music away so I don’t here it through the walls. My daughter still has boxes everywhere. And I do mean everywhere. She has to get them unpacked or stored by the end of the week. She will be saving money to get her car fixed and I cannot say I really mind.
Work has been crazy. My offiicer is losing her mind – I think literally. She wants to be the person who makes decisions, but now she is having her world and responsibilities decreased. To be honest, none of us really mind. For my systems, I had others that I escalate issues to anyway. The implementation of subject matter experts or SME has been full of problems. No one bothered to filter information down to the lower level project leaders. My projects don’t have an actual SME assigned to them so I am in never never land. When I asked, the answer was that I would be responsible. Now I have two jobs for the price of one. Nice job! I guess it means that I have job security, but damn… I think of Suz’s comments in her blog and I think – I wish I were far more verbal at work. In fact, my officer sent me a nasty gram Saturday as she and my supervisior were entering SME for our projects not yet migrating. I marked a few of mine with a product name (which I knew had no SME, but no one would suggest how I chunk it). She said i should have asked. My response (which I took a long time to compose) said I had asked several times. The SME area that was originally thought to contain it was removed, so I asked my supervisior. Futhermore, I had my projects ‘chunked’ late on Wednesday. I left them with my supervisior. If someone had questions, they should have directed them to me on Thursday or Friday. Her terse response was that I should have followed up. Hum, she is never around and my supervisior didn’t know. What was the big deal? Only that she didn’t know how to chunck them either. To be honest, this is the crap that has been going on for awhile. This is the first time that she has been testy, but I will keep the email on hand.
On Thursday, I did send her an email asking for advice on how to handle a project that was chunked out to a SME that has already said he will not address the retirement portion of the system. My concern was that I didn’t want the team scheduling meetings that included SME that were not willing to handle that part of the system. Note, I didn’t chunk the project out to that area – my officer did. She forwarded the email to the VPs, and the SME asking for advice. The answer from them was that I really was the SME in that area and that I should officially have that job. Oh yes, aren’t I happy?
To make matters worse, I am not the only AA in the dog house. She went through everyones project list and second guessed every single one of us. My neighbor was furious. Both of us spent 3 hours past work time to finish the work and then she second guesses us. In my area, she only assigned statements to the wrong SME, and actually created a new one! Not the one I was asking about!
Oh well, I feel better now. I spent all weekend reading and cross-stitching. That always feels great. It was relaxing and took my mind off of everything.
Oh yes, my ex is dating and I hate it! Who knew that after being divorced almost 13 years that I would be jealous? It just seems weird. Our daughter spent the night at his girlfriends and met her 15 year old daughter. She said she likes her, so that is good.
