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Ok. It's not as juicy as the previous parts. So, last Friday the CEO was back in the office when I arrived in the morning. So that chat happened. No much excitement, I just reiterated my points of Wednesday evening. I also added a bunch of extra points. I mentioned to him that I think the management of this project has been terrible, only the only the 3 management stooges have an idea what the plans are. The rest who is involved don't know shit about what to expect, and when things should happen. They only know that upcoming week some of the management stooges will be at other party and testing the application on a functional level. But what the test plan is, we don't know. I also mentioned the ridiculous way of indirect communication that became the norm last week. The other parties talk/email to our management stooges, and they will then talk/email to us the things that were wrong in the mapping of the messages exchange between the system. This of course only leads to slowed progression, and confusion because of half/incorrect information. How difficult is it to include the 2 developers in this loop. If you can loop in 10+ managers then it shouldn't be a problem to include the 2 people from our side who actually can address the issues. Thursday I simply contacted one guy from the other party to resolve a communication issue. and we actually got stuff done because were wasn't an enormous overhead of managers butting in only seeing doom and gloom. So anyway, mentioned all that stuff (and probably some more) to the CEO. The CEO could agree with my points, and he could also mention a few other points he wasn't really happy with concerning this project. Then one of the three management stooges walked in (the worst one). And the CEO called him over. The CEO mentioned a few things to him (like the indirect communication, and Curly agreed that I should be included in the loop, but that of course never happened). And then the CEO asked what the status was. Friday was the last day to wrap up the communication part between the various systems. And this stooge happily confirmed that there were no open issue (I already said to the CEO that afaik everything is done) (remember this part). And then the CEO asked about what was up setting the deadline two days earlier. This stooge showed the CEO that he was in fact spineless. The other party (our direct customer) damned it because their test environment would go down. And they simply agreed. The stooge failed to mention and they made no effort to communicate that with the rest of the team, because they heard about it during the project meeting on Monday. No, they waited till 3 hours before they wanted us to put in overtime that it was going to happen. So this short chat between the me, the CEO and stooge ended without too much fuss. Because right now, everything was a-ok. I walked over to my desk booted up my machine and checked my email. And there was an email from an other stooge, it was a vague list of all outstanding issues that should be resolved today. I say vague list because it didn't contain much details except that "Message X is incorrect". This email was also send to the CEO, because this mail stooge asked if the CEO could mention this list of issue during the morning "support divide & conquer" meeting. Because stooge #1 was on his way to that customer, stooge #2 was in a conference call for a different project, and stooge #3... no idea, but apparently not available. I'm sure the CEO like that request. It was one of the things he mentioned to me he didn't like about this project. We have 3 project managers on our side sitting on this project, how can it be that the CEO has to pick up some of their work. Also, that particular morning our company was not represented in the daily conference call of that project because all stooges were doing something else!? And that was what happened Friday morning. The day passed as usual. I fixed some issues here and there. And then it was 16:30 again. The stooges were in the project conference call again (yes, they had one at 9:00 and 16:30 every day). One of them walked over to me and asked if I could see why Message Y didn't enter the system. I never had anything to do with Message Y, but because I'm a proper and awesome software developer I took a look. And I quickly saw what was wrong, and also figured out that this thing was never going to work. At least, not without adding some new functionality to the application. "How can this be? This was supposed to be one of the easiest and straight forward messages!?" said the main stooge while waving his arms over his head. Anyway, I could fix the message (because it was wrong in a bunch of places) and create the needed functionality in about 30 minutes (because I'm awesome). So at around 17:45 I solved the issue, tested the solution on my machine, and committed the changes. The only thing left deploying a new release in "test1" testing half the application, and then move to to "test2" (which they will use upcoming week for testing). Yes, we currently have 2 test environments for this instance. And why do they have to "test1" first, it's because there also have been a bunch of other changes besides my fix since the release running on "test2". Changes, which the stooges obviously didn't test. Anyway, as is quite common, I saved the day again. But I didn't see an email where I was thanked for saving their lying asses again.

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We have a emoticon which is quite suitable for that trailer

d'oh... I completely missed that line.

I'm pretty sure you can't get some BTMs on the first try.

You forgot a disk. So you can add an extra 100ish for that, disks are expensive these days due to the Thailand floods.

No, I'm pretty sure it's not going to fit as it should. I've inspected the dragon a bit more, and some parts have not been glued in the correct position. For example the right leg of the dragon is facing too much inwards.

So I tried to assemble that dragon statue that came with the collectors edition of Skyrim... I failed. It's simply impossible to get the dragon properly on that rock.

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It gets better. One of the "project managers" send an email to ... well at least the CEO that the overtime thingy sort of payed off but not thanks to me. He didn't literally say that, but it was implied: "In case you wondered which of the engineers gets compliments here... it were <first name of colleague> and mister <last name of the same colleague> ;-)". Sure, trash on all the extra effort I put into this project a month before you even started to lift a finger in this company. Jackass. So I responded to the COs and the engineering team lead that if this is they way they want to do business they don't have to count on me for this project. And that I don't appreciate be treated this way. I know for a fact that the COs and team leads talked about the incident of last night this morning. But I haven't received any response from them yet, the COs were not in the rest of the day. They haven't heard the last of me (about this) yet.

"Ran out of digital copies"

I'm getting more and more agitated and frustrated about a project going on at work. I've been working my ass of on that project for the last 3 months. I created a bunch of things that were sold but didn't exist at the time. I estimated I needed about 3 weeks to get some part of the proof of concept properly working for testing, but the other party started to call the bluff so I had 2 weeks to wrap it up for testing. I'd figure I would have time to do that stuff more properly in the weeks thereafter. Sadly, the testing part didn't went flawless, so it took me quite some time to get things rolling properly. Then there was the other thing I didn't know about which also needed to be build. Glancing over the specs I figured I could whip something up in a week or two. Which would be sort of on time for the testing of that part which was a little over a week away. Anyway, so I managed to cover the bluffs that were made. After that there was a bunch of stress on delivering some design documents on the mapping of messages from X to Y. Designs which eventually were more or less ignored or not checked by the other parties, and also wrong on various levels. After handling my support duties for a week and contributing some more on those designs, I took a vacation for a week. Only 2 days after I returned from holiday there was the first panic meeting. Apparently were not going to meet the deadlines (according to the other party). Which was a bit odd to me considering we would have 4 weeks of development available. But as it turned out, one party wanted to do some testing before we would start the complete technical testing. And for some reason we agreed to that, sort of. The schedules our project management had didn't align up for the project management from the other teams. So we had to scramble and get things done in 3 weeks. Of course, testing the communication of different systems also means that configuration of those systems should be ok, and some custom work should be operational. Those things were scheduled to be finished a few weeks later. Another weird thing. So, eventually we managed to get a lot of stuff done, and full "technical" testing could be done this week. However, as it appeared, quite a bunch of things on our side with one party (which was supposed to be ok according to the testing last weeks) wasn't really done after all. So some people were sleeping and slacking. But not a big problem, we would have 5 days for technical testing and rework of the various elements. Right? Wrong! That other party, that wanted the communication between us and them tested before this week, decided that their test environment would be offline for maintenance this Thursday. So testing would need to be finished by the end of today. Cutting our time window with 40%. And of course, our project management agreed. So halfway the afternoon the asked me to stay in late (again, because Tuesday I also put in an extra hour) till maybe 20:00. I said no, because my part of the work is pretty much done. Up to 17:00 I didn't receive any remarks on the stuff I was responsible for. So, everything should be ok. While I was starting to pack up, they came to me that there was something wrong in one part of the thing I was responsible for. But how could that be, my last change was over 2 hours ago, and I didn't receive any remarks. From 15:00 till 17:00 helped with other things to finish. And in fact, the last 30 minutes I spend more or less staring at the screen because everything I could work on for this project was "ok". So, I fixed that one issue, and at 17:40 I left. Project management was still in the conference call (till 20:00). I saw their faces, and I saw they weren't happy about me leaving (after I worked 9 hours). About 2 minutes after I left the CEO called me (we're a small company), and wanted to talk about this. I give him a piece of my mind about my reason to go home and what not. We'll probably have a chat about this incident tomorrow. I wonder how high my pay raise will be.

My housecarl walked out on me because she waited for a long time in my house. I don't really care about companions. I've only used fast travel once. But that was because it was getting late and I wanted to finish the quest. Walking back would have taken a really long time because it was from one side of the map to about 75% on the other side of the map. Other than that I didn't use any for of fast travel, I don't want to miss out of things. Maybe in the future I will use it more often to cut some boring corners that I already fully explored.

My post didn't contain any spoilers. [spoilers]But you mentioned the god was immortal. I didn't know that until I was fighting a dragon. The dragon was trying to create a hot dog, and failed of course. For me there was still a chance that the dog would die and the quest would fail. I only mentioned a talking dog which had an interesting but also a bit weird quest attached to it's tail. Btw... is it normal that dragons attack only when you're more or less in the middle of a fight? Because so far dragon only attacked me while I was fighting other things. I've had dragons circle me a couple of times without attacking me, and while that happened I wasn't fighting anything.

Brannigan, use spoiler tags

So I followed that talking dog. And what followed didn't become less weird. It was an interesting set of quests. The only regret I have is completing the quest. The dog was a very useful companion.

For real? That would be awesome. Must try that.

And foxes! They are awesome. I was walking around and a foxed approached me from the woods. He looked at me for a while and then ran off. Returned again to look at me, and ran of again. (I think it was a bug in the path finding, but it was awesome nonetheless).

I wear leather. Also... in Skyrim I kill a lot of animals for their fur.

Why did you decide to go for I instead of II? I've never played I myself.

Ok, so this happened tonight: I found some cabin in the mountains. Locked. I waited till dawn. Still nobody around. To hell with it, I want to see what's inside. Inside I was greeted by a bandit. So I cut him down. I found a lot of stuff in that house. It was filled with things. But he... what's this? A hidden passage behind a closet. Awesome! So I found a bandit lair, lots of treasures. Excellent. Loaded with stuff from the bandit hideout I left the house, only to be scared shitless by a giant frost spider that was right in front of my nose. So I insta killed that sucker. Only to be surprised by a frigging dragon. So a nice dragon fight followed. Luckily some nearby bandits and animals distracted the dragon a couple of times allowing be extra time to take it down. Success! Dragon slain. Time to continue my travels. ... what the... A headless horsemen ghost!? ... it's passing me without even looking at me ... erm ... noticing me. So... ok... on with my travels. Oh look, it's a dog. Hello doggy. "Hello." What!? It talks, and wants me to follow him. Yeah... that was an interesting session. Tomorrow I'm going to find out what the dog wants.

I don't want to do that. I just need to become more bad-ass. I'm not really in favor of companions. I'm supposed to be the guy that saves the world. I shouldn't need help with that :/

I just did that (simply trying various things) I like it. Also, I'm a weak mofo :/ I decided to explore a random cave, which had a nice glowing ceiling. But I encountered some very strong creatures which I could only beat one at the time. The second part of the cave contained 2 such creatures, so I kept dieing. Had to exist the cave without clearing it

Speaking of alchemy. how can I figure out the formulas? I have yet to figure out the formula for a health potion. And in stores I can only find formulas for stuff I'm not interested in.