Work Politics

I had a code change today that was very easy. the requirement was basically to remove one line of code that controlled a link, and move a file around so it got picked up by another line of code. Very easy manipulation. Why did it take a week? It took a week because I had been specifically told not to do what I was being asked to do a couple months ago. I had to make sure those folks were on board before pulling the trigger on the change.

This took all of twenty minutes to make the changes and almost two hours to test with interruptions. Funny how that works. It took nearly a week to get approval of sorts. Let's call it a consensus.

Ah, politics. The company  work for has become a medium sized company. We are having growing pains and getting to the point where several people do nothing but push paper work around to handle the rest of the people who do work for or on products. Such is the way of modern business. It is perfectly normal and perfectly regular and perfectly a pain in the ass for all involved.

This is punctuated by a sign of a truly medium to large company. This morning we had a pre-meeting-meeting to cover the bullets so t the meeting went well and there were no surprises. Nearly every one in the meeting was in the pre-meeting-meeting.

Yup, watching our little company grow in to a conglomerate. I'm so proud.