Remember the client I was bitching about yesterday? Woo boy did he cause major problems yesterday. This is the client I am doing monthly presentations for. I did one yesterday at 8am and another scheduled for today at 2pm. Well he sent no less than three emails explicitly saying what he wanted covered this month and I was not to deviate from his list and I'd better cover everything. Well, I did. Halfway through my presentation to 172 people, he unmutes and tells me to stop talking about certain topics. Huh?? Firts off you completely just fucked my flow up by unmuting and just talking. Second, huh? Turns out the CIO was in the background chewing his ass out for having me cover things that they will not be buying any time soon because the CIO doesn't want to spend money OR show end users anything that could possibly cost them money in the future. Seriously? For example, I am no longer allowed to mention system requirements in my classes because then users go and want better hardware than the shit he has been buying for them. The whole thing turned into a fiasco and him trying to dump the blame on me, me standing up for myself saying um, fuck you, and then me having to rework my whole presentation for today to remove all of the offending pieces. The sad thing? The users LOVED my material. Major kudos were given to me, sent to them, etc. Everyone fucking loved it. The problem is every time I do something for these people it immediately shows how woefully unprepared they are to do anything. Of course this makes me the enemy of IT, but the savior of the people. Go figure.
Another day of being a dog parent. One week to be exact. So much crazy. Can't believe it's been a week already. We went on two walks, made pasta for dinner, stayed up until midnight, up at 3am, back up again for our 6am. So tired but it's so worth it when she snuggles with us.
Time to pay bills.
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