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February 24, 2009

prelude to another couple of heartfelt "fuck you, motherfuckers"

Do you know how many days off you've had since December 15th? Do ya? You don't, do you? Well, I know how many I've had. Zero. The big doughnut. Christmas? New Year's? Sick days? Those are for the weak.

I am, as I've previously referenced, overemployed. Not the worst problem to have during layoffs and a recession, to be sure. But man, do I have no margin for error. There's no such thing as "Wow, she royally fucked that up, but I can just work tonight/this weekend and knock this puppy out." Tonight and this weekend are already booked solid, you see. I can no longer mitigate other people's incompetence or inability to plan.

Which makes me positively stabby when they're incompetent or don't plan, two qualities in abundance at Microsoft. Want to die in a brutal, disgusting manner? Make my job unnecessarily harder right now. Drop a massive project in my lap, unannounced, and then make it harder than it has to be. I dare you. I double-dog dare you. See what happens.

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