I have a “newish” guy on the team and he’s always late. Granted he works late, as in 8pm late. But working better at night is not an excuse not to be here during our core hours. I talked to him last year and talked to him this January.

His timekeeping has improved but lapses are frequent.

The SOP is you notify your department when someone is late or sick, etc. So as you can imagine I have sent a number of emails saying this guy “will be in late”.

Yesterday, a Monday, was no different. EXCEPT one developer replied “unsubscribe”.

Ouch.

I took offence and replied to him that he can direct the emails to his trash.

D’oh!

I’m so dense. The “attack” was for the guy not me.

I told you we’re all very toxic.

The guy replied with a lengthy retort but I hope that teaches him a lesson. I mean the HR already emailed the entire company basically saying “be here by 9am”. Which reminds me, it’s 915am and he’s not here!

And before you ask what the heck am I wasting office hours blogging? I’ve been here since 7am and I’ve already released a change on a website, printed out the regression metrics and looked at some of the results!

We’re nearly there. The project is to go Live in 3 weeks!

Everyone is busy. We’re all highly stressed and toxic… Or maybe it’s just me.

I peeked in the Metro today and my horoscope says:

Those you work with seem to be balancing precariously on the thin line between barely there sanity and outright madness today, which isn’t much of a comfort facing the looming deadlines. Looks like it’s down to you.

Salamat ha.