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September 1, 2005 by Dee

I gave someone a piece of my mind today… Not something in my usual repertoire of behaviour…
I felt it was warranted…
The story is this. I am a web administrator which is short for “wicked genius with code and stuff”, or if you prefer, Web Princess … (Web Mistress is soooo S&M). As such, I am called upon not only to update the site for which I am responsible, but also to create new subsites or sections of the site for different departments.
Or, in this case, for any one of the Big Things that we may be doing. This Bigger than Ben Hur Big Thing has warranted it’s own site and as is customary the dept ordering said site was advised of the 2 weeks of lead time required. This means, provide me the content now and I will use those two weeks to make you a beeyoootiful site.
Yeah Right… who listens to the Web Princess?
And so, lead time ignored, there have been empty spaces for content all over the site and 2 DAYS before the deadline the whole menu tree was changed and presented to me to complete… Bloody Hell it’s the 1st of September today .. The Boss has been telling everyone to check out the site today!!
VERY UNHAPPY Web Princess.
6.15pm I am going on holiday TOMORROW and instead of proofing and link checking I am still putting content in. You get the picture right? Panic. And here’s me needing desperately to head to the mall to get the last few things required for the Hawaiian Odyssey…
Temperature Rising…
For 2 days, aware that this deadline was going to catch up with me, I have been touchy and very cranky at Embroiderer who is responsible for supplying me with the stuff.
She was late.
Later than a Late Thing.
MELTDOWN
It isn’t all her fault and she has worn the crankiness reasonably well and after my very direct discourse (read RANT) on how the lateness affects me, how unprofessional it is, and how unfair to have such ridiculous expectations, she has a much clearer idea of how the site is put together and how slow it can be. And how reliant I am on her to make it all work!
I felt a lot better having delivered that piece of my mind… But of course, tomorrow we have to send the e-card to our massive database to let everyone know the information is now available online…
That should only take 2 business days…
Oh yeah.. the DeadLine is 4pm.

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Comments

  1. Fi says

    September 2, 2005 at 8:52 am

    What a pain in the neck! Why do things like this always happen just before you’re due to have a holiday?

  2. deeleea says

    September 2, 2005 at 9:58 am

    It happens PRECISELY because I am going on holiday!!

  3. Miss Lisa says

    July 17, 2009 at 10:14 pm

    hee hee hee hee ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho … before the entire Wibsite is up in arms at my laughter – please note it is HYSTERICAL laughter! Some of you may have realised that Deeleea and I know each other … oddly enough the Company i work for does a lot of work for her place of employ …. and we have been working on the same BIG THING …. with much of the same ranting going on in our offices …. though not to peoples faces …. ah, work …. it just makes not being at work seem SO MUCH BETTER!!!!!! HAVE AN AWESOME TIME IN HAWAII MISS DEELEEA YOU REALLY TRULY COMPLETELY DESERVE IT!!!!

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