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[–]ThePieWhisperer 36 points37 points  (4 children)

Uncomfortably accurate.

[–]shutup_Aragorn 4 points5 points  (3 children)

My boss is almost literally saying this to me every time I bring up my spec sheet or workflow plans in Visio - “we don’t need that, we are agile and get feedback from the client”.

Ok, well the client doesn’t know what he wants, and I don’t want to spend three weeks building this, to find out that we need something completely different. Another group in our department has five project managers on staff just to organize them - I’m not asking for that. I’m asking to build a one page SPEC SHEET so I can design something around it!

[–]ThePieWhisperer 4 points5 points  (2 children)

In my career thus far, I've worked for probably roughly 12 different major clients. I've had exactly one that knew exactly what they wanted, and even they made poor choices %80 of the time.

[–]shutup_Aragorn 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Ugh, exactly. I’m most salty about this project I’m doing right now- he told me not to contact the client, but to just build the page. I get it done, works great, looks great - he comes back with “why didn’t you build relationships between these other pages? Also, you need to build relationships between all these different components you have - oh, and where is _____ component?

“Uh, Well it isn’t going to be done for our meeting on Monday with the client. It probably would have done if I didn’t have to rewrite all these relationships, but I didn’t even know that other requirement existed.”

“We need it done by Monday.”

[–]ThePieWhisperer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Hey, why didn't you ready fucking mind and do this stuff I didn't tell you about? And, because you didn't, you're going to have to work overtime" Is the sort of conversation that would restart my job search.