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Word of the day
Jul. 14th, 2005 01:14 amI coined a new word today: "Fectacular" — a run-on of "fecal" and "spectacular," used to describe something amazingly crappy. The first syllable is pronounced with a short "e", like "spectacular," but starting with an "f".
Today is the date of our monthly PHP developer's meeting that our company sponsors. The scheduled presenter is out of town. The conference room was unavailable. The demanding client we've been bending over for is contesting an invoice we gave him two months ago. We have other projects to work on.
The boss manages the developer meeting. I haven't been able to participate since I started C2 classes earlier this year. So he's on his own, pulling that out of the frying pan (he did manage to find a conference room, and he was researching the scheduled topic) when the client emails him wanting more information before paying an invoice that's two months old.
The last thing he said was that it was time to dump this client. The relationship with this client is just too much work and stress. Which means that I will have to spend more time putting the project into a state that we can hand off to someone else.
Not so much a bad day for me. I got a lot done on another project. But a bad day for the boss — a fectacular day.
Today is the date of our monthly PHP developer's meeting that our company sponsors. The scheduled presenter is out of town. The conference room was unavailable. The demanding client we've been bending over for is contesting an invoice we gave him two months ago. We have other projects to work on.
The boss manages the developer meeting. I haven't been able to participate since I started C2 classes earlier this year. So he's on his own, pulling that out of the frying pan (he did manage to find a conference room, and he was researching the scheduled topic) when the client emails him wanting more information before paying an invoice that's two months old.
The last thing he said was that it was time to dump this client. The relationship with this client is just too much work and stress. Which means that I will have to spend more time putting the project into a state that we can hand off to someone else.
Not so much a bad day for me. I got a lot done on another project. But a bad day for the boss — a fectacular day.
