So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker
Boy, isn’t it the truth? My boss is “managing” me right into a hole of utter un-productivity right now.
He apparently doesn’t understand that only 10% of the project is actually the layout of the interface (ie: stuff he can “see”). The other 90% is where you’re working in the background making sure that pretty interface actually does something.
Two to three times a day, he’ll come by, call me, or email me asking if there’s anything new for him to see1.
No, there’s nothing new for you to see, I’ll tell you when I’m done with something so you can see it. The more time we spend talking about how there’s nothing for you to see, the less time I get to spend actually working on something for you to see.
Add to it that it reinforces a bitter feeling that I’m not getting anything done nearly fast enough even though I’m working my ass off, and you’ve got one thoroughly unhappy developer.
Time to call those two job recruiters back, me thinks…
- He’s supposedly on vacation this week, but at 8:24 this morning he still found the time to email me asking if there’s anything else he can see. [back]
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