Today didn’t quite go to plan, the stuff that I had wanted to complete had to be put on the back burner. This was because I had to prepare a server for some of the testers. As I didn’t think that it would take long I started the work at about 10:00, fully expecting it to take only and hour or so. Just before 11:00 I was asked not to do anything, I innocently asked if not doing anything included not deleting all the Binaries, Scripts and Links on the server. This elicited a response from the person in charge that I can’t really type here, suffice to say that I didn’t know that you could use the F’word as an Adjective, Verb, Preposition and Noun all in one sentence. After some further comments about the way that the morning was going for this person, it was decided that I should complete the work and hand the server over to the DBA’s and then on to the testers. The work was completed at around 14:00, at which time the reminder for filling in my time popped up as if by magic.

I dutifully completed my time entry and commited it, I decided that I should reward myself with a coffee. On my return I was asked to call a person at one of the other offices, I did and was immediately grilled over the entry of time that I had just completed. The conversation went something like this;

Her: Hello this is XXXX

Me: I have a message to call you, it’s XXXXX

Her: Oh yes, I want to talk to you about the time against X8913-MDS

Me: Yes, I just put four hours against it.

Her: I see that, but we’re not working on it this week!

Me: I am.

Her: You can’t, there’s nothing being done on that project.

Me: It’s the SAP project isn’t it?

Her: Yes, but only a bit of it!

Me: I’m only working on a bit of it!

Her: Yes, but not that bit!

Me: What bit of it am I working on then?

Her: An other bit………?

After some further investigation it did turn out that I was indeed working on an other bit, a bit that I didn’t have a code to book to. Still these things are easilly remedied, it only took a further hour and a half. When at the end of this quite long conversation I’d asked how she noticed the entry so quickly, the response that I’d least expected was “It sticks out like a Bulldog’s Bollox!”.