Today was a busy “other” work day. First starting in my new role as backup webmaster. But since I still need to learn a few things about the different webmaster tasks it was a training morning for me. After that I came across some code again from the only one who claims to be senior developer that I took one of my old, or more forgotten, roles within the company more serious again. A group of developers used to be responsible for the code quality on our site. But it feels like fighting a losing battle. We have a coding standards guide which gives rules on how to do hour coding. Apparently a long forgotten document so today I and a colleague picked that document and are currently making it up to date again and add a lot more to it. As off next week we will try to have a short presentation in hour group meetings explaining parts of the document, to make it more alive again. We will try and make it fun as well, although it’s hard to find a good way to do just that.
Anyway, he liked the idea so much that we are really making another effort for it and his energy helped me feeling passionate again about my work and our product. I can’t come up with any good example to explain to you in “normal” words how important it can be for our work.
Tonight we have got the meeting with the owners' association. One meeting I’m not really looking forward to since some people want to make changes to their kitchen door and try to let me have the same done. It’s all about replacing one window for double glass and with a grid. I’ve got three issues with that.
- The wood work is of a poor quality and needs replacing as well.
- Why only one window and not all the windows double glass.
- Who is cleaning the grid in the window? Those things are not really fun to clean!
Yesterday the chairman came to my door again and asked me again why I do not want that window replaced and then told me I had no choice since if the association is going through I will have to follow. That remark is not true at all and pissed me of (to say the least). But just trying to make roux for a sauce I had no time to go into a discussion, and by all means I didn’t wanted to anyway.
Preparing for tonight’s meeting I went through the notes of the last meeting, and there it was. There would be an inventory held who needed new windows, nothing more, nothing less. So his actions where very aggressive towards me. And I do remember him asking me just after last year’s meeting where I told him that just a window is not enough for me and a waste of money.
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