Two floors of grumpy testers

We never got our build yesterday. This means not only did we not get to test yesterday, but that we wasted the entire day waiting to test ... being told constantly that it would be here any moment. My officemate said that it was a criminal waste of time.

Today, I discover that the code that I'm supposed to test ... isn't actually in the build. SORRY! Please continue wasting time for two more days. When we are running out of time at the end of the project, you'll get the blame AND we'll expect you to stay late.

This is how people in test become crotchety old farts at the age of 26. Every tester I know has a highly developed sense of irony - it's the only way to keep your sanity in the face of this kind of fuckwittage.

Who would think this would be me?

I've been feeling stoppered up like a character in an Edith Wharton novel. And yet, this is my Thoth tarot ... beautiful enough to post without a cut.


LOVERS
"the synthesizer of dualities, polarities, and opposites"
You have extraordinary gifts working with people of all ages. You can access your deep understanding, application, and synthetical abilities dealing with the concept of paradox, polarity, and opposition. Relationships are an important focal point for personal growth and development-- you need to feel things changing in a relationship. You have the ability to do multi-level thinking. You have great insight and perception of what is going on with people.


Which major arcana of the thoth tarot deck are you?
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Given how I've been feeling, I find the results highly ironic. So I did another quiz by the same person just for the heck of it ... ( Read more... )

Funny enough, the New York Times has an article on why women get the blues more than men do, and it says, "Another risk factor appears to be something that researchers call overthinking, a tendency to dwell on petty slights, to mentally replay testy encounters and to wallow in sad feelings. Studies show that this type of negative thinking is far more common in women than in men, and that it can be a harbinger of clinical depression."