Well, yesterday, my “Boxing Day” off, consisted of about half a day’s worth of phonecons and heads-down spreadsheet and project plan crunching for a proposal that a functional group presented to us a week ago and said, “Oh, by the way, we’ve negotiated all of this with the vendor, and we need your nod to approve everything that’s there” — which didn’t include any IT-related costs (let alone schedule considerations) such as servers, contractors, etc.
Today, so far, it’s been heads-down in the office over the same stuff, though my boss did congratulate me on the costing and planning done to date — “We’ve done far worse with far more time to do it in.”
None of this includes any of the other Urgent Items I was expecting to work on today. Rrg.
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Ummm…
This *is* a working vacation, right? ;P
Yeah, but where the “work” ends and the “vacation” begins seems to be a wee bit fuzzy. That’s why, I guess, they pay me the big bucks …
For the record, we concluded the proposal schedule and costing today and got it submitted mid-day — at which point the requesting group made oblique remarks about how IT had turned a simple proposal into a major infrastructure upgrade and withdrew the request.
But did get kudos from the Boss Man on the whole thing. So that’s worth something. 🙂