It’s fun, hearing the above phrase more often than once in a day. If someone asks me to bake the potatoes, I end up baking them. If they want them cooked, they should’ve asked me to cook them and not bake them. If you want me to do what you want instead of what you asked, at least ask me what the heck you want instead of being ambiguous.

If you ask me to bake the meat, fine. If you ask a second later whether I’d be so kind to bake the potatoes, but while I’m at it, make some salad too…Stop being so lengthy about it and just ask me to make dinner and make sure the damn tomatoes don’t have an expiry date of 2 weeks ago. And absolutely don’t ask me to cook if you didn’t get anything at all, because I can’t cook without ingredients either.

If someone asks me to give an estimate how long something will take to code. I assume that I have to count in FTE’s. So I throw 1 week. That some people think in their own kind of FTE (being actually 0.25 to 0.3 FTE), makes it sound a bit short indeed. If managers want to use FTE so badly, at least make sure you get the idea of how to use it.

0 FTE FTW IMHO. FIN/ACK

Posted by Taennyn in Real Life