The Complaining and Bitching Thread

Jesus, I feel like I got punched in the face.

 

Oh, the shit I do to make people happy and keep a paycheck.

 

Oh, I wish it was to that level. Hell, I didn't even get a prison FMUTA scene.
It was a simple pettiness that the Project Management Officer, who never said anything before, nor was clear this time immediately,
was TRULY concerned about who we'd note as sponsors on the two projects I'm managing.

So I had to recreate, nooo...not edit, but recreate each time she changed her mind what to put up there.
(Why?? Because the damn buggy Sharepoint PM app we're using won't register a change, only a new one.)
And I had to copy and past...AND reformat each section of each status report, each time.

So after SEVERAL emails back & forth between her and the guy I'm ACTUALLY reporting to for the client. We got it down...kind of.
It will probably change after the weekend...as warned by the guy.
Who simply wanted to put down who actually is paying for me and the team that is working with me. (which makes sense...)
NOT some high-level executives that I never interact with, nor read it, nor know what the hell I'm doing. (and herself, of course)

Brought me back to my Word Processor days. (Yes kids, they had people who only did Word Processing, because no one else did)
Thank God I'm a nicely paid consultant...who can walk off into the sunset when this service is done.

But actually, most are nice and fairly knowledgeable, I'm impressed.
This is the first real silliness and irritation that I've really encountered.

Just makin' use of the Complaining & Bitchin' thread.
And yes, I'm having cheese with this whine.

In all honesty, I expected this to occur sooner or later...one of the inanities of being a Project Manager.
The anal powers that be like their summaries they don't read to be "just so" usually.
(Ok, they read them, but they don't absorb it...they note just the grammar & formatting...and those words that make them feel uncomfortable)
That, and the GUI wasn't working...so of course, they would complain just then when I couldn't control their damned app.
I was counting the days...until I figured it out, just yesterday WTF was wrong with it. (App will only function in a "certain" browser, not others)

It's at these moments, I wish I was a whore...at least I'd be doing something useful.

 

Ready to choke a bitch. My neighbors won't shut their damn yappy dogs up. They let them out in the backyard and basically ensure that while they're out there, we can't enjoy our backyard because the dogs bark the whole damn time. I needed to sweep up our deck and get some stuff in my garden done, and was out there for about fifteen minutes. The dogs barked the WHOLE TIME. They're still barking.

 

Seriously, I'd like to be able to enjoy my backyard when the weather is nice.

 

While I have dogs...I've trained them to respect that we're living around others.
They keep whatever barking they have to a minimum.
Basically, just like kids...keep them until it registers through their thick-heads...and even then some reminders. (Soft or Growling on my mood. )
It's up to the parents/owners to be conscious of it.

 

I don't even know where to start today. It's really difficult to be a move-forward-get-it-done kind of person in this kind of situation. I can see all of the forks in the road in front of me, but I can't do anything until one fork is chosen over another.