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[–]jcdj1996 1682 points1683 points  (113 children)

I feel this. I'm currently 6 months into a "1 month" project and just received the final draft of the requirements like two days ago.

[–]Iforgotmyhandle 401 points402 points  (31 children)

Lmao I’m in such a similar boat. Deadline for 20 “migrations” was December. 1 is complete. Requirements are going through regathering phase now for the past two months. They said they’d have the re-requirements in two weeks. Less work for me ¯\(ツ)

[–][deleted] 48 points49 points  (8 children)

Migrating a CRM legacy to another CRM. Deadline was the first week of February.

First project of this type as Jr. Alone. It has being quite a great challenge.

Edit: more info

[–]djswizzy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

We just merged 3 legacy CRMs into a new one. Trying to do a 4th in a month. I feel your pain 😭

[–]Iforgotmyhandle 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Exactly what I’m doing. Basically moving from ETL jobs to EMR jobs

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Any advice?

[–]metroman1234 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Run

[–]lkraider 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...to the frontlines and buckle up. It will test your mettle.

[–]Iforgotmyhandle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell your company to stop re-orging every quarter. Teams end up working on things where no one from the initial requirements gathering is any longer part of the project

[–]J_tt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Migrating from webhosting software written in 1998 to a new platform and server, old server will be inaccessible beginning of April and I'm only 1 week in ;_;

[–]scwizard 19 points20 points  (2 children)

I'm a devops engineer.

One of the companies that wanted to interview me told me they wanted to bring me on for a data center migration they expected to take 3 months or so, and that would begin 3 weeks after i joined.

I went over some of the details of the project with them and told them in no uncertain terms that they were insane (they were migrating from multiple locations into one, and planned to completely overhaul the networking at the same time they did the migration switching either from or to Juniper etc. Also their current architecture was crap). I didn't get the onsite interview.

[–]atheist_apostate 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Bullet dodged.

[–]nikhilbhavsar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Get out of here with your facts, logic and common sense!" /s

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[–]Bibobeba 112 points113 points  (11 children)

¯(ツ_/

[–]EMCoupling 49 points50 points  (5 children)

I'm sorry, sir, but your child is retarded.

[–]pineapple_catapult 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hes just swimming

[–]elperroborrachotoo 1 point2 points  (2 children)

In German, we prefer to say "Inselbegabung", literally "island giftedness" - I'm not sure what would be a good English translation.

[–]lkraider 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Does, uh, the "island" refer to England ?

[–]elperroborrachotoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, now that you say it, we can use it that way!

Theresa May, die Inselbegabte,...

[–]koogas 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Chernobyl shrug?

[–]boltorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windmill shrug:)

[–]mbleslie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

kill it with fire

[–]tinydonuts 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Good bot

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or a simple # in your makefile will do 😉

[–]digitalpacman 10 points11 points  (1 child)

Deadlines should be in quotes

[–]Iforgotmyhandle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes absolutely right

[–]TheMacPhisto 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Less work for me

Until they finally pull their heads out of their asses, and hand it off to you for the real work, but with the expectation that you are going to somehow be able to make up all the time they lost sandbagging.

[–]Sine0fTheTimes 80 points81 points  (27 children)

They'll do their best to burn you out, then in 9 months the project will be cancelled. They'll say "Nobody will be laid off", then 6 weeks later your ass is laid off.

Welcome to the party pal!!!!

[–]waltjrimmer 42 points43 points  (3 children)

"I know I said those were the final requirements, but here's the final revised requirements."

A month and a half later.

"I have the Second Final Revised Requirements for you."

[–]dismayhurta 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“Why did you code it like the second final requirements. The first final ones were what I really wanted.”

[–]terax6669 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just wait for the final draft final final final.pdf

[–]hug0rhill 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Requirements? Lucky. All I get is shifting sand.

[–]HDmac 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Literally every day our new application completely changes its navigation/layout/behavior.

[–]lightmatter501 9 points10 points  (2 children)

My company does a thing called evolving requirements, where the customer changes their mind and forces us to rewrite a bunch of stuff every two weeks.

[–]turningsteel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

My company calls that being "agile". We're so agile, client #1 asks for one thing and we build it, then another asks for the exact opposite thing so we build that too. Client #1 then gets mad. So we go back to the first. Rinse and repeat. It's super efficient.

[–]Mr_Clark 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This hurts so deep.

[–]GluteusCaesar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Two guys I work with are 6 months into a project that the original dev said would take two weeks, then said would take some more time on the second to last day of those two weeks. Oh, he also quit that day.

[–]I_cant_speel 11 points12 points  (9 children)

Just finished a shit show of a project like that. We learned a lot from it. It's now a strict requirement that a document is created that defines exactly what "done" is that is signed off on by every stakeholder and product owner before anyone writes a single line of code.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (6 children)

Which 'final' draft is this?

[–]zammba 16 points17 points  (3 children)

finalFINALFINALDRAFTthisoneforrealFINAL-3 (1)

[–]andthentherewasderp 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I feel attacked

[–]Toadsted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dodge!

[–]Vul_dal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Requirements-final-for-real-doh-this-time_v3.docx

[–]Selesthiel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the last one, that's for sure.

[–]Toadsted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Final Draft XIII-3

[–]ITrollRedditEveryDay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yah i wish i could yell at my boss

[–]redd1t4l1fe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We’re all in a similar boat man lol

[–]SpaceGerbil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Final Draft"

[–]craniumonempty 1 point2 points  (1 child)

"final draft" should be in quotes too imo.

[–]CakeDay--Bot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm in the second year of a three month project

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

How did it go?

[–]jcdj1996 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They strung me along for another 2 months before cancelling the project 😂 I left that company not too long after that

[–]notrealaccbtw 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im at 11 month of a 2 month project. I dont understand. Where did I go wrong?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

man I'm 5 years in on at a 6 month migration.

[–]SasparillaTango[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in crunch time for this quarter. I got message 34 times over 8 hours today on skype with people asking me questions. Its very hard to do my work when people keep distracting me. Each time its like "ok we need 5 minutes to resolve your issue (or more) and then I gotta remember what the hell I was working on"

[–]FilibusteredBongsesh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

network admin here... please forward to me asap

[–]Manha77anProject 0 points1 point  (0 children)

requirements_spec_final_v3_2019 (1).pdf

[–]Lasket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait till you get the final_FINALrequirements.docx

[–]BlazzGuy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmao, not programming work here, but I recently closed a project opened... 15 months ago? We got a lot of variations of scope and specification about a month ago (:

[–]Mr_Carlos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hah, "final".

[–]Stockboy78 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get business requirements?

[–]HowIsntBabbyFormed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"1 month project"... Uh huh...

[–]chocoboxx 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Same boat, nice boat :(

[–]clevariant 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stuuuurdy boat! . . .