have been in mayfair at the other hedge fund so far this week and its been busy. dont really get too much time to just coast along and get a breather and am on it pretty much all the time. all the developers and managers i am working with seem nice. The head of the trading development team, who is a big cheese, came over to me today and thanked me for getting a lot of the problems fixed, which was good to hear. i was worried i was going to be grouped in with the chancers and be blamed for fucking up their project, but its good to know they are not lumping me in with those idiots and appreciate that i am trying to be part of the solution not part of the problem.
The only downer is that i am still having to deal with chancer PM on a daily basis. he is so far out of his depth its just embarressing. we have conference calls with various departments and he just says the most stupid things sometimes. still, at least he is back in the head office and i am in mayfair and he cant come to my desk every 20 minutes asking me dumb ass questions. he did however stitch me up which is not entirely unexpected. it had been agreed that i would be in mayfair for 3 days working on fixing his project and then i was to be in the main office and working on my own project on thursdays and fridays. today he sent a schedule round to all the senior developers and the heads of department saying i would get various bits of the their projects fixed and working on thursday and friday (when i was scheduled to be on my other project).
what a fucking chancer. you help them out. you give them your time and you work in another office in another part of town clearing up a mess his team have caused. you become the person that everyone goes to for all their problems associated with that project and so you risk your reputation in associating yourself with a shuttle crash of a project. you stay behind and try and get as much done as you can in the 3 days, and your thanks for it is that he dumps more work on you to be delivered at the end of the week, when he clearly knows you are scheduled to be working on another project on those days. some people just cant stop taking the piss. i had to let the manager of my other project know and he was not happy and sent a terse email to the chancer saying it was agreed i was his resource on thursdays and fridays.
in the meantime his team of 3 chancers just bumble along completely unaware of anything. i dont even know if they are even doing any work, or for which project. they cant be working on their own project because they have made a balls up of it, and they are not working on my project, so fuck knows what they do to get paid £450/day. maybe they are at their desks with colouring books and crayons, or maybe they are finger painting. i also heard from one the people that approves timesheets that the chancers bill for 7 days a week most weeks not 6, claiming they are working all weekend on building servers. for those keeping score, thats over 3 grand a week each for people that you wouldnt trust with a pair of scissors let alone be involved in build out a new trading platform.
today i have mostly been listening to placebo - bullet proof cupid. this is from the concert film, soulmates never die. its a instrumental piece and is an awesome way to start a show.
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