Phase IV is when ants take over

[sergebroom]

Yesterday, I finally received the signoff on Phase I of my Project from Purgatory. I just started Phase II's processing, which means I can walk away from my computer(*) until tomorrow morning, which is when the process will end. The user will then begin validating the results, but that shouldn't be a big deal because I fixed all the bugs that we'd run into during the earlier phase. In other words, I'll be able to get the final signoff on Wednesday, if not before.

The weirdest moment about the Project is that, on Friday, it looked like I wasn't going to make it, and do you know what my new manager's reaction was? He was supportive, and he was going to stand by me. It's been a long time I've had a manager like that.

Cue in "Stand by Me".
And no, I haven't forgotten that Stephen King's original story was called "The Body".

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(*) Except for some infrequent monitoring.

Comments

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Just watch out for Captain Trips...oh, sorry; wrong "stand". Nevermind.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

For a moment, I thought you meant the Captain in the Wild Cards stories. I must be more tired than I thought, that I didn't get the "stand" reference right away.

[xeger.livejournal.com]

Isn't that lovely!!! It's such an amazing feeling to realize that somebody -does- have your back -- and not in the sense of "as a target for a knife".

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And such managers find that people working for them will willingly and happily go beyond the extra mile/kilometer for them.

[redrose3125.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Hopefully I am not fooling myself into a crushing disappointment.