One of my co-workers and his wife welcomed a new baby yesterday. The past couple of weeks have been incredibly challenging because he works on a quarterly thing that dovetails to my project, and his thing is not a fun thing, but it is a legal thing. And wooof. Whoa. And the deadline for our clients to submit records for this quarterly thing was yesterday. Perfect timing, little baby.
His boss (a new boss to him due to a department reorganization, but a coworker we've all had for over a year) is doing his job now and we've been ramping up to this. But that doesn't mean we're ready for him to be completely unreachable. A lot of things that the original guy, the m has complained about for years are being exposed, and now his new boss is in a position to hopefully fix the fuck out of processes and situations that have just been allowed to happen for years and years.
Watching him in meetings, he's a great guy and a lot of fun, but his tolerance for people's bullshit answers is incredibly low. The "Well, it depends on what the xyz thing is," answers make his head explode.
"Okay, it depends. It depends on what? Tell me the dependencies. Are there 3? 6? 12? Why are there dependencies? What can we do to cut down on these dependencies that end up impacting almost a whole population of things? And when can we do it by?"
It is a thing of beauty to behold, and I love watching him just go at it.
We're all on the same team here, there are three departments involved, but we're all on one team.
I had my 1:1 with my manager today and he's going on vacation Friday afternoon for two whole weeks. I feel like we have pretty much turned the corner on the chaos, but I dread not having him available.
We discussed how I've always wanted to know how this project thing worked, and I've run into obfuscations from the other teams, usually director level, "why do you need to know that?" is a popular response to me asking something.
Um. Because I need to put into words to the client why this isn't going to happen, or, why they have to do something some way. So I need to understand it.
I let my manager know that 2 people in particular have been really huge road blocks to me, and he laughed and said "Oh, I know. I have heard that before!"
Part of me thinks this is great that my co-worker and Mrs. Co-worker are off having their baby and parental leave time, because I know everything that he has had to struggle with every quarter will hopefully now be thrust into the spotlight, by his boss, and we'll get some sort of massive restructuring of the process for him.
"Maybe when he comes back, his job will be so massively different and better, and wonderful..." I said to my manager, and he said he hopes so too.
It's so hard to try to get things done sometimes, when people don't want to work with you to fix a thing that is so obviously messy.
Sigh.
I had a meeting with a client today. He and another client share a first name, and in my little brain, I thought I was meeting with Guy #1 when really it was Guy #2.
When I sent the meeting invite out, I had the wrong company name on it, but Guy #2 didn't call me out on it. "I saw that," he said, "I know that other guy. He's great. Sorry you're meeting with me and not him!"
It was a good chat. Good meeting. Very fun.
One of the things I really love about my job is the meetings with these clients. I love teaching them how to use things. I love seeing them click and get it. I love helping them realize they've been doing something wrong for so long that now... it's a miracle, this is how to do it and it is changing my life.
We had a short walk because there were cats out there. And she cannot resist trying to catch cats.
So I brought her disappointed disobedient ass home. Finished up my steps in the house.
I wanted to share this picture yesterday and forgot. We have some lettuce! I've never tried to grow lettuce.
I do have to say I'm happy to see that they are coming up, but, if I had to feed my family over the winter nothing we're growing would be helpful, so we just plan on enjoying what we have while we have it.
Not sure why no one is in the middle though. Weird.
Digits below.
digits
exercise: 12/12 hours. 25 min treadmill, 1.6 mi. cut it short for dinner; 10k+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose: *see note below
9:30am: 145
4:15pm: 159
10:30pm: 144
food & meds:
9:30am: jardiance, new meds
12:30pm: english muffin w/pb & low sugar j
2pm: met+glip
7pm: grilled chicken breast w/some little tiny roasted potatoes and a salad
8pm: met+glip
*side effects of new medication: "May impact blood sugar." I am going to be talking to the doctor about this because nothing I'm doing/eating would cause the readings to be as high as they are today/yesterday. hmmmmmmm
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