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In today's depressing day at work
We were in a meeting talking about upcoming development work and talked about how a dev is still working on a particular project that's supposed to wrap up tomorrow. All the pieces he's worked on so far have bugs identified by the Editorial person who does the first checks.
So... those tickets are waiting for the dev to fix the bugs.
One of the tickets in the bundle turned out to be more work than anticipated, as a feature we all assumed existed didn't exist at all. This ticket is awaiting the dev detailing his proposed solution for Editorial approval.
My boss freaked out. "We need to have a process discussion." And they're going to have meetings. And they made the Editorial girl come into the meeting to go over the bugs she pointed out, which are keeping this work from going to the editor for final review.
All of which implying that I'm not doing my job. When, in fact, we're just waiting on the dev to fix everything, none of which looks like a lot of work. Also she was upset that when I first made the tickets I didn't include her a watcher so she wasn't seeing all of this happen which thwarts her ability to micromanage everything. (Her account has been changed so she gets emails about everything on every ticket anyway, so I'm not sure how this complaint is valid.)
And to make it even more awesome, a male coworker decided to jump in and defend me sort of? Or at least speak for me? When I wasn't even sure anything needed to be said, since again, fixing up bugs before sending the work for final review doesn't strike me as a problem much less one that needs escalating. (I told him afterward that he shouldn't have done that, and he admitted to being annoyed that Editoral pops new expectations on us when reviewing things, so apparently his jumping in was driven by annoyance at them.)
Because I'm taking a day off tomrrow, everyone is going to have this meeting to discuss how close all this work is being completed without me. Yay.
BONUS: In the same meeting, the CIO jokingly called my boss out on being a control freak micromanager. I nodded in agreement without really thinking about it. But it's okay, because he clearly didn't seem to think this was a valid criticism of her or anything that should be dealt with.



