Pointless Day
From a work perspective this Monday is just utterly pointless. Those who can take holiday have, the rest are not exactly holding business hours (yes, I know it’s not even 9, but this is a global organisation we’re talking about here and we do operate 24×5.5) and to be honest, who can blame them?
I’m the first to say I do absolutely sod all at work, but on occasion I do actually do some. All I need to do for the rest of this year is get a test working and have someone sign off on it. I’ve never seen the code in question before and no one except the developer has seen it run, so there’s going to be teething problems. That’s fine, that’s expected. Problem is this thing takes over 15 minutes to fail and will only run before midday (after that the input files become invalid and removing the logic checking for that kind of renders the test pointless). Given I need services run by other teams to be up and running and I am getting absolutely no response from them I don’t think I’m going to get my test working today. Since I’ve got nothing else to do you’ve really got to ask: What’s the point? Thankfully I’m ‘working’ from home so I can watch TV while waiting 
I know it’s awfully ‘un-pc’ and therefore has no chance of happening but Christmas Eve should be a Bank Holiday on the grounds that nothing gets achieved and most of us knock off early anyway - I was out of the office by 1pm… Having been told we’d all be there till 5