More fun

So now I’m just in a holding pattern waiting for money to come in for the position I want, or some shoe to drop to signal that it’s time to move on from here.

This team is just nuts. I’ve been working with Dumb on this project, and suddenly he goes “silent”. In his mind, his driving the project (but only in his mind), so suddenly I was amazed at the lack of micromanagement I was experiencing.

So I took at look at source control to see what he’d been up to, and he’s off working on *another* project.

Now I’m sure he’ll be back, and I’ll hear about it the moment he is. But where’s the coordination? Where’s the communication? Neither he, ace project manager that he is, or my boss Smooth, ace project manager that he is, let me know that Dumb was off working on something else.

The short of it is, this is a crazy, dysfunctional team with terrible communication. I have no idea what anyone else is working on, not even the peers that I am working with directly.

My dad made a good point though. Because Smooth is so ambitious, he doesn’t want to report any bad news. For him, everything is rosey and peachy in his little domain. So as long as I go with the flow, and chalk up some bullet points here and there, I have good job security.

I’m not satisfied with that, though, and I’m not willing to tolerate the bullying that goes on because the team, and a couple of its members, are so broken. It’s just a matter of waiting for the good position to come through, or else look for a good opening to jump through to another team.