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So...after lots of ass-covering and bullying, ADL gets this disaster slated for the next release, which gave me exactly three weeks to get my coding and testing done...again. I get the testing and coding done based on what was at the time the current version of the requirements. (You know where this is going.)

Three weeks later and I'm in exactly the same boat.

Thursday at 3:00 the protege sends me an e-mail telling me that I need to completely rework a big section of the program based on a sudden revelation (most likely from ADL--as this has his burning desire to deliver a 100% solution at any cost all over it). That, and there are big, gaping holes in these new requirements that would probably take months to drive out. After a quick visit with my manager, I fire off a response that says that I have nothing even remotely approaching the time to get this done as the deadline was Friday. (Let's not even get into the fact that this request will make the end product not work as well.) Once again, there choice is to pull it from the release or go with it as-is.

Then, being thoroughly sick of this bull$h!t, I decide on the spot to make this a 4-day weekend, fill out my vacation request, and leave.

There was no chance of having these new requirements in any sort of usable shape AND have the massive changes coded AND tested by EOD Friday. I fully expect to have dozens of angry e-mails and voicemails when I get in on Tuesday. I don't feel the least bit bad as I got to put off all vacation for the first 5 months of this year to deal with this steaming pile of excrement while ADL rode his motorcycle to Anchorage via Las Vegas and back. I fully expect to be told repeatedly by ADL and the protege to get all of their changes done AND get it into the release even though I am now past the deadline for doing so.

What irritates me the most is that this software is only going to live until the end of the year. No one seems to be paying attention to the fact that it is getting massively more expensive to develop and the payback period is shrinking.