I went in for a meeting with Psycho boy and the president of the company a week ago now. Believe it or not they fired me for "work ethic" not for screaming at my blinkin boss. Unfortunately I was so floored by the fact that he had the gall to say that I have a poor work ethic that I couldn't say anything other than, uh, OK... Bye!

So now I am heading back to school and working at Best Buy part-time. Unfortunately it will probably prevent me from coaching next year :(

Well thats all for now. Other than my team had me for a dryland (for the tournament they won this season). They ran my out-of-shape ass into the ground last night. /me is sore.

-Coach

Well I have done blogs before, but I figured /. would be the place to do it since I am here all the time...

Anyway, had a blow up at the office today. I am working on a development project that has essentially been handed over me to manage. Though officially I am a peon I am pretty much responsible for keeping our other yutz of a developer on track towards the deadline that I gave psycho boss man, which was two weeks after the deadline that he pulled out of his rectum. Well, the meetings about the project have generally consisted of myself presenting the current status of the project and our other bumbling idiot of a developer mumbling through something on a presentation of what he has done. Psycho boy then spends 15 minutes ranting about hitting a deadline and making sure that we are progressing. Today we were to show off a test bed of the application. I had it up and ruinning but some of our DLLs and OCXs were changed. This hosed my test app and I had nada other than my verbal report that we were on schedule. My butto starts tearing into me in about why there aren't any reports (note: none of my reports thus far have been officially "required") the normal stuff ensues.

Me: I haven't done X because I have been spending my time on Y.
Boss: I find it hard to believe that Y is taking up all your time...

Repeat until I get really pissed off...

30 seconds after he drops the farking argument he starts in on where the project is and why we aren't going to hit our deadline.

Flash back a month and a half...

Nutto: and I will take care of the GUI.
Me: Ok, great! One fewer thing I have to worry about.

So the meeting progresses with me firmly stating that we are on schedule, which we are. Then he starts into his fantastic rant, 10 seconds after he starts on his rant...

Me:Hang on. Psycho boy, where is the GUI?
Psycho/Nutto: Are you trying to say that development is delayed from not having a gui?
Me: No, but every meeting you tear into us for being behind, when you "took over" the GUI a month and a half ago! All you have done in that period is put paper on the wall!
(note: he is notorious for not only being a control freak, but for putting paper diagrams on walls that are relatively irrelevant to a project. In this case each paper said "Component Name" then had a list of components on individual pieces below it. Imagine about 25 sheets of paper taped to a wall with words drawn in magik marker on them and you'll get the idea).
Psycho boy: Ahpht... B- I need you to leave right now.

I left, gathered my things (figured I'd be fired for yelling at him in front of another owner and the other developer). He came in 20 minutes later and told me to go home and think about it. Asshat...

(another note: Psycho boy = nutto)

Anyway that was my day, other than finding out my X system was hosed and having to dreg through a reconfiguration of X... Yippee...

-iCoach