escapists

my teamleader asked me if anyone had spoken to me about a contract renewal. he had heard from one of the other guys that they might be going round to some people soon to let them know they might be needed in the new year. no one has spoken to me yet, and i am going to assume they are not going to and plan accordingly. as far as i know i am leaving in mid december and i am going to make plans for a new contract elsewhere. 


chancer PM has been same as always, an asshole, but thats nothing new. his team of 3 chancers have been same as always, incompetent and lazy. i got into work late today at 9:20. when i got there they were in the office but not at their desks. they do a morning breakfast meeting every day which has no one else in it but the 3 of them. at around 9:45 they were back at their desks, but then at 10:15 they all dissappeared again. at 11am they came back and then at 12:15 they all went to lunch. they were back by the time i got back from lunch at 2pm but at 4pm they got their bags and coats and left for the day. £450-500 day for maybe 4 hours work a day. its a great job if you can get it. 


i also got the impression that one of the chancers was giving me dirty looks today. am not bothered as i dont need their approval or camoraderie. i wonder if something i said yesterday to chancer pm might have been relayed back to them. he was piling on tons more work for me to do which was to fix his teams fuckups. i told him i was too busy with other work and that i would look at it the next day. i also said it took a long time to check because i had to go through every little thing because their work was littered with mistakes. wrong VLANs, missing software on servers, software intalled on servers that didnt need it, missing disks, extra redundant networks, missing networks, incorrect DNS etc.... . chancer PM said there might be many reasons why these things MIGHT come about. i said it wasnt a case of might happen, this has happened and it is happening and maybe they should look at the causes of why, because its wasting time and pushing back deadlines for development teams.  


why would someone install a particular piece of software on a server when it wasnt requested!?. its bad enough they miss stuff, but now they are adding stuff when its not needed. chancer PM said it was because they guessed they might need it, to which i replied, yes, judging by the state of the servers, it looks like there has been a lot of guessing. conversation ended 10 seconds later and today when i have been in the same office as him, as opposed to putting out his fires in mayfair, he has said hardly anything to me. thats right fella, stand back. i am too tired and too close to the end of my contract. 


got football tonight. i need it bad. its the only time when this headache i have had for weeks seems to subside. it also went yesterday when i was at the gym for an hour, but this morning on the way to work it was back. am working late tomorrow night and saturday again. i am sooooo tired. 


today i have mostly been listening to escapists - post gospel blues. sounds a bit like arcade fire, which is not a bad thing.