Nefarious November

Yes...  This has been an extremely wicked month where work is concerned.  This particular "team mate" of mine is really an asshole, and that's putting it mildly.  There was an instance when the overwhelming colleague (who made me got my chest tightness in our meeting last month) reached out from a JIRA story complaining about a feature that was supposed to have been deployed on the previous week but was nowhere to be found.  And this "team mate" of mine left a scorching remarks in the JIRA thread that really made my blood boil.  Turned out, the enhancement was overwritten by a deployment that made it gone missing.

What An Asshole - Galaxy S23+

Arduous April

What a crazy month April has been.  Sometimes I'm under the impression that my manager thinks I'm very free from the way he kept on throwing work my way.  What broke the straw for me was when during our bi-weekly 1-on-1 he mentioned how I hadn't touched on the Process part of my job scope.  That was when I snapped within, to the point that I showed him my daily activity records to make a point that I have certainly not been slacking.  And earlier today when I took stock of my tasks, I realized that I have 11 ongoing tasks on hand.  I really feel that whatever was described to me during the interview are not materializing and it really is time for me to move on, even if I have to forgo the sign-on bonus.  I really couldn't care about the money anymore.  Ever since the announcement that 100% of the workforce can return to office, I've been returning 3 days a week and even left office after 7 despite starting at 9 this week. 

One of Those Days in Office - Galaxy Note 9

Just July

As July comes to an end, the past 3 weeks have been crazy stressful at work.  The e-approval processes I have set up suddenly required urgent fixes because the send mail notification and the approval connectors were decommissioned (deprecated in Microsoft lingo).  The approval connector deprecation is especially hard to swallow, as I will need to re-design 6 of my flows - which I'm still figuring out...  At least, the other 43 are already OK...  I tried parallel branching, which brought down the nesting level to 9, just one over the maximum allowable 8.  I also looked at using Child Flows, but after careful consideration, I will end up with more flows to manage if I use this technique. Not forgetting to mention that this technique also requires premium subscription and a crash course on JSON, so...  nope, using child flow is also out.  The last technique I need to explore is variable initialization.  And I somehow must make this work.  Prior to this "breakdown" there were the usual office drama, politicking and reading between the lines which really, really drained me... man...  I really wish I could just jump ship.  

Along Alexandra Road - Galaxy Note 9