It's official - apparently I am a pessimist
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Project manager: This UAT data will all go in by the end of the day. Me: I think we need to be cautious with our expectations as we have hit a lot of errors so far when importing data. Project manager: You are such a pessimist. Reality: The environment was completely screwed up by the someone's last minute changes to the configuration files - which they had not factored into the data files. The import was even more of a screw up than I had hinted at. End of first day and 1/20th of the data is in the system. After witnessing all of this the IT director told me that I am a pessimist.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
I once thought I was a pessimist... but, as usual, I was wrong. X|
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Project manager: This UAT data will all go in by the end of the day. Me: I think we need to be cautious with our expectations as we have hit a lot of errors so far when importing data. Project manager: You are such a pessimist. Reality: The environment was completely screwed up by the someone's last minute changes to the configuration files - which they had not factored into the data files. The import was even more of a screw up than I had hinted at. End of first day and 1/20th of the data is in the system. After witnessing all of this the IT director told me that I am a pessimist.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
Pessimist (n). What an optimist calls a realist.
This space for rent
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Project manager: This UAT data will all go in by the end of the day. Me: I think we need to be cautious with our expectations as we have hit a lot of errors so far when importing data. Project manager: You are such a pessimist. Reality: The environment was completely screwed up by the someone's last minute changes to the configuration files - which they had not factored into the data files. The import was even more of a screw up than I had hinted at. End of first day and 1/20th of the data is in the system. After witnessing all of this the IT director told me that I am a pessimist.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
It's no fun being the only expert in the room. The Expert [^]
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Project manager: This UAT data will all go in by the end of the day. Me: I think we need to be cautious with our expectations as we have hit a lot of errors so far when importing data. Project manager: You are such a pessimist. Reality: The environment was completely screwed up by the someone's last minute changes to the configuration files - which they had not factored into the data files. The import was even more of a screw up than I had hinted at. End of first day and 1/20th of the data is in the system. After witnessing all of this the IT director told me that I am a pessimist.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
George Will Quote:
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Project manager: This UAT data will all go in by the end of the day. Me: I think we need to be cautious with our expectations as we have hit a lot of errors so far when importing data. Project manager: You are such a pessimist. Reality: The environment was completely screwed up by the someone's last minute changes to the configuration files - which they had not factored into the data files. The import was even more of a screw up than I had hinted at. End of first day and 1/20th of the data is in the system. After witnessing all of this the IT director told me that I am a pessimist.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
But are you a pessimist enough?
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George Will Quote:
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
FTFY
That's the optimistic way of looking at it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Project manager: This UAT data will all go in by the end of the day. Me: I think we need to be cautious with our expectations as we have hit a lot of errors so far when importing data. Project manager: You are such a pessimist. Reality: The environment was completely screwed up by the someone's last minute changes to the configuration files - which they had not factored into the data files. The import was even more of a screw up than I had hinted at. End of first day and 1/20th of the data is in the system. After witnessing all of this the IT director told me that I am a pessimist.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I have worked with some really good project managers. The best project manager I worked with would multiply my time estimate by three and she was generally correct in her time estimation. Currently I work with project managers who divide my time estimate by three...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I have worked with some really good project managers. The best project manager I worked with would multiply my time estimate by three and she was generally correct in her time estimation. Currently I work with project managers who divide my time estimate by three...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
