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insomniasexx  ·  3172 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 22, 2015

Well. I forgot to post the pubski post even though it was attached to my alarm, calendar and trello. I'm brilliant sometimes. Thank goodness for thenewgreen who saves the day...again.

I'm so sick and tired of failing at shit like this. I feel like I can't keep up with anything right now and I forget to take care of the things that actually matter to me. It may sound silly, but Hubski really fucking matters to me. This piece-of-shit abortion of a site that has been doomed from the get go DOES NOT.

Today, for example, I was dealing with two employees playing the "he broke my CSS" blame game. After dealing with the situation via a strongly worded "I don't care who's fault it is I only care about solutions", I went in to take a look at what was happening. What I found...wow. Neither have any right to play the blame game seeing as the CSS and HTML was already spaghetti-coded together and a brilliant mess of shit. Any single line of code that either of them added would certainly break their own code, let alone each others.

So, instead of assigning tasks, I deleted the mess and spent two hours and rewrote the entire thing to actually work without weird JS hacks and the other bullshit that had be implemented in order to fix one "bug" or another. The site hasn't launched yet. There is NO excuse for every container (there were 5 nested containers) having a clearfix on it when they are all positioned fixed or absolute.

I am reconsidering the responsibilities I am handing to them now and I don't like that. But the reality is, I hire people to make my life easier. If I have to put off everything I am doing to read a 2000 word email about whats broken and who's fault it is, I would rather build time into my schedule just to do it myself.

Takeaways from the above rant:

1. Your boss doesn't give A SINGULAR FUCK who's fault it is or WHY it isn't working. I care about (1) what I need to do to get it fixed and (2) that you are going to fix it and (3) if the fix you are going to implement is going to push / block other deadlines.

2. If you do not make your boss's life easier, they will not continue to work with you. End of conversation. I will gladly pay an employee whatever they ask for -- even if it's above what I'm making on a fucking project -- if they make my life easier. You don't have to know everything. You don't have to be the best at anything. If I can pay you $100 so that I don't have to deal with 1 thing, I will do it. In an instant.

Oh! But I did get my Project Fi invite!!!!!! WOOOOO.

Now I have to buy a nexus 6. If anyone wants two refurbished (by me) nexus 5s with differently broken screens and one with a faulty LTE connection work, message me an offer. They both have Lollipop on them but a factory reset will push them back to 4.4 or whatever. The one I'm currently using, the screen is barely broken and it doesn't affect your use. The old broken screen / fault LTE is...a mess. I'll throw in my broken-screen'd iPhone 5s too! They'd make for a great testing device!