tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214699729339673750.post8526060923890035915..comments2023-06-22T01:34:01.227-07:00Comments on SQL Tools: When “can’t be done” is not an optionrationalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02398378934739504719noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214699729339673750.post-53890112882277585912008-06-05T19:34:00.000-07:002008-06-05T19:34:00.000-07:00OPTION 6And if you are working for a narcissistic ...OPTION 6<BR/><BR/>And if you are working for a narcissistic blowhard, one tactic that has worked extremely well for me was to not commit to anything and pretend the entire thing was a bad dream. If the requirements are so out of touch with reality, the entire dev team will play along. The boss will sooner or later figure out that his ranting was just so bizarre that everybody has stopped paying attention to him when his project demands are untenable, and he will learn to loosen up the project constraints. By pretending it was all just a bad dream, the boss isn't publicly humiliated and is able to still save face, and usually learns to be more realistic in the future. Like I said, it's worked for me, but you can only get away with doing this just the few times when your boss goes off his meds and just starts spouting trash or ego-thumping tirades. Only to be used in emergency.vaneklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00728653010839416298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214699729339673750.post-64131196125971277292008-06-05T18:57:00.000-07:002008-06-05T18:57:00.000-07:00You're considering that boss will always give you ...You're considering that boss will always give you permission to come with a game plan. Even better, your boss will be dying to check your game plan! Now, back to the real life: you may face a situation where your boss will tell you: "You must do this. Period.".<BR/><BR/>My option would be:<BR/>5) Make sure you and your boss understand that it's not really possible to come with a decent solution for the issue with the time you're given. <B>DOCUMENT</B> something you can use as a proof if anything goes terribly wrong. Send an e-mail to your boss and just require him to reply it with an "OK" so he can't say "sorry, didn't read it". Even better: CC the e-mail to the customer, and require a reply as well. <BR/><BR/>This already saved my ass once. One woman started complaining that I didn't understand what she wanted, that I wasted too much time doing something useless, that she was very unhappy with that situation. All I had to do was to show the e-mail where the same woman replied my e-mail with: "That's perfect". "This is ridiculous, why would I request thi?" became "Well, I guess this request was rather silly."João Marcushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08679910497915175200noreply@blogger.com