Developments, Good & Better

It's been a day. Generally good but there were serious roller coaster moments.

I had a half-hour discussion with my director this morning. There was a problem with a deployment I was implementing so I rang him up for advice on their standard configuration. In the process, I learned there were other gaping holes in their rollout procedure, including a tonne of things which they've never bothered to relay to me or document for future. So I kinda let him have it. I'm just so damned tired and frustrated with these half-baked and undocumented processes: this is no way to run a business and especially not their production environment.

I laid out my expectations and what I considered to be professional business systems, detailing what I thought were profound deficiencies in our procedures. For the most part, he agreed and confessed there were even more egregious issues than I knew. Wonderful. I'm going to be abusing my manager and colleagues a lot more aggressively in the near future and chatting periodically with my director at least weekly from now onwards.

In convention news, I've finished creating the tickets for the swag, t-shirts, polo shirts and such. These tickets will be in the registration envelopes of those who pre-registered; once collected from the registration desk, the tickets can be redeemed at our swag counter across the lobby. Our hope is that this will accelerate the check-in procedure and reduce lines & crowds. As well, those who don't necessarily want convention swag can forgo it by simply tossing their ticket.

I hope to drop off nearly all of the major reproduction work at Staples tomorrow to collect Thursday afternoon. There's still a few bits left but those will be added next week before registration opens.

And in other news, kent4str has accepted a job offer. He'll be working for a law firm in the Georgetown area of Washington DC beginning April 14. Best of all, it will be at comparable salary and benefits to his old job!

It's been a long, long day so I'm heading to bed now. Buh-bye.

Developments, Good & Better

It's been a day. Generally good but there were serious roller coaster moments.

I had a half-hour discussion with my director this morning. There was a problem with a deployment I was implementing so I rang him up for advice on their standard configuration. In the process, I learned there were other gaping holes in their rollout procedure, including a tonne of things which they've never bothered to relay to me or document for future. So I kinda let him have it. I'm just so damned tired and frustrated with these half-baked and undocumented processes: this is no way to run a business and especially not their production environment.

I laid out my expectations and what I considered to be professional business systems, detailing what I thought were profound deficiencies in our procedures. For the most part, he agreed and confessed there were even more egregious issues than I knew. Wonderful. I'm going to be abusing my manager and colleagues a lot more aggressively in the near future and chatting periodically with my director at least weekly from now onwards.

In convention news, I've finished creating the tickets for the swag, t-shirts, polo shirts and such. These tickets will be in the registration envelopes of those who pre-registered; once collected from the registration desk, the tickets can be redeemed at our swag counter across the lobby. Our hope is that this will accelerate the check-in procedure and reduce lines & crowds. As well, those who don't necessarily want convention swag can forgo it by simply tossing their ticket.

I hope to drop off nearly all of the major reproduction work at Staples tomorrow to collect Thursday afternoon. There's still a few bits left but those will be added next week before registration opens.

And in other news, kent4str has accepted a job offer. He'll be working for a law firm in the Georgetown area of Washington DC beginning April 14. Best of all, it will be at comparable salary and benefits to his old job!

It's been a long, long day so I'm heading to bed now. Buh-bye.