[two characters are sittiing at the same table, talking]
[blue, happy, holding a document]
The date for the wedding has been set!
[purple, curious and a bit confused]
Wait, did you even ask her out?
[blue, still happy]
Nah, she doesn’t even know me yet
[purple facepalms with gusto and cringes]
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https://thebad.website/comic/this_is_about_project_management
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Surely PM is more like, the date is set, the priest is scheduled for the week after, the venue isn’t available until 4 days after that, the catering hasn’t been called and the guests have already RSVP’D.
Stand by to take the blame
Increasingly we’re realising waterfall is not just bad for tech projects
And don’t forget: if one woman can “produce” a baby in nine months, nine women should be able to do it in one.
I can’t count how many times I had to explain this exact analogy to a sales person I felt like I was losing my mind sometimes.
I don’t miss working in tech, 15 years of my life was enough.
I am so tired of my tech job. Producing next year’s landfill is how I describe it.
May I ask what you do for income these days?
The upside of tech is they pay way too much, especially once you become an exec. Set aside enough money that I can live off my reserves, been designing board games, doing art commissions, and selling books and t-shirts since 2020. None of those earn me much, it’s a lot of work for barely any income, and I’ve had to downscale my lifestyle, but it’s much healthier this way. Zero regrets.
Similar story to most of the other people I worked with 10 years ago, and the tech world wonders why they have a hard time finding senior employees these days…
Thanks!
To be fair, if you stagger them and keep impregnating one of them every month (and ignore that nine months is an approximation with significant variability, and that women can’t get pregnant immediately after giving birth) you will eventually be getting one baby every month. You’ll still need to wait nine months for the first one, though.
It’ll be horribly stressful and unhealthy for the women and the babies, and many of them will die and need to be replaced, but when have managers cared about that?
If you take out the implied over-precision, it makes a lot of sense though. It’s good to know what you’re looking for, even when it’s very vaguely scheduled. “Get married and have kids around 25-30” is a decently vague expectation that is not at all useless when making life decisions.
The problem is that project management timelines are kind of useless when you’re measuring goals on the realm of 5 years.
Many EPC projects have timelines over 5 years. It’s not about the tools but about who is using them and how.
Engineered Plastic Components?
You had me laughing. Thanks.
Engineering, Procurement & Construction. Usually includes commissioning.
How is your experience on reality following up with that kind of thing?
Well, mine is abysmal, thank you for asking, BUT I have seen people drive for life goals like that with single-mindedness and actually achieve them. I imagine you have to widen your “acceptable” target landing zone quite a bit most times.
People only achieve life-goals because they get attached to the process of making them happening. No single person ever has set a multi-year goal and achieved it because they were chasing the goal.
It is if you’re 50.
i have a relative like this. no, not metaphorically, literally. got invited to a wedding before the visa papers were filed. not the first time either.
before the visa papers were filed
what? was he importing some mail-order bride?
it’s a weird church thing. they fly people to nigeria and have them marry men there so they can get into the country easier. only, immigration knows about it so they keep blocking it. this time they tried holding the wedding here, only the guy couldn’t get a visa because he has no marketable skills.
this has gone on for at least thirty years.
