Life is slow. Life is quiet. Life is good.
Yesterday marked the twelve year anniversary of the day I first met Psycho, but unfortunately she had a migraine: our planned visit to our favourite restaurant fell to pieces because of this. Bummer. Still, in a way it's a good thing as my bank account is way beyond the limits of reasonable overdraft at the moment, thanks to all the money problems and a rental agency taking for-freakin'-ever to get their documentation to the bank to give me my deposit back. I spoke to my bank this morning and even they're worried... not a good thing considering they're normally very understanding.
Apart from that, everything's going OK. I just wish some money would appear and sort out that problem. Then I'd be happy.
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It seems my leaving has finally become public knowledge: I was afraid of this happening sooner, so I suppose it's a blessing that it's been quiet until now. Random people seem to have heard, in different teams, which makes me wonder how the hell they found out - not that it's important, but it intrigues me.
One young lady asked me if I wanted them to do a "pot" as they call it here (pronounced 'poh'), which is where everyone gets together for a glass of wine and some munchies at midday to say goodbye. I asked them not to, as I find that always feels forced and it would put me in a position where I'd have to explain myself to far too many people. I've made a lot of friends here and their friendship is what matters, not some façade and a desperate search for an appropriate leaving present.
I'm also considering working from home tomorrow and Friday, mostly to avoid all the goodbyes. Heck, I'll still be around on email and messengers and so on!
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One more week to go. One more week in the office and I can finally relax a bit (at least for a day or two).
Of course, this morning I was met by a tidal wave of work that has been attempting to wash me out of the window all day, dragging me kicking and screaming down to the sewers. I'm a good swimmer, though, so I'm doing alright.
The worst of the requests for help today was from a user who is either too lazy or too stupid to do her own work. She's asked for a whole bunch of changes to a report that I wrote a while back to help out her team in a moment of difficulty. Said report is unsupported, non-standard and was a short term solution that I asked them not to share or to treat as a source of accurate data (since the figures are part of commissions to the sales force). They have since done both of those things. *sigh*
To add insult to injury, however, this user sent me a list of "requirements" (note that this is no longer a request, but a demand) for changes to the report so that it could be used in a particular way in a particular country.
"That's neither insulting nor injurious," you say. Of course, you're right: what is is that all of the changes she's asking for can be made manually within the reporting software. We're talking a "right-click a column and choose 'Delete'" level of difficulty here.
Why are there always users who are too damned lazy or pig-ignorant to learn the basics of the software instead of finding ways to give all their work to other people? Grrrr.
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