Rant

A hot Friday afternoon (at least outside the office) and a routine meeting between onsite leads and the offshore leads is on.

The Senior Project Manager (henceforth SPM and who is based at the client location, of course) is seeking update from the offshore team.

SPM: "So where have we reached?"
S: "We are currently at 463, hopeful of reaching 470 by EOD today."

EOD for people who struggle with acronyms like me means End Of Day.

SPM: 470 is all well and good but we were supposed to be on 480 by the 21st.
S (thinking): yeah the hell we were...
(missed a bit of the conversation here)....I don’t care, I want 480 by 9 AM client time on Monday.
S (the hell you do): "We will try but it is going to be difficult!"

SPM (annoyed): "What S that was our target."

Meeting is over and S gets back to his team and informs them about the ultimatum.
X: "How can we achieve the target today?"
S: "What is basically implied is that we have to work this weekend as well!"

Grumpily everyone agrees....

Saturday is through and we are still 8 short of the target...and going back home S decides to chuck work and sit back and relax on Sunday. Ferrari is even ready to resume battle at Imola he thinks. To hell with work and targets...they make him feel sick anyways...
Yeah that’s the way it will be...
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Sunday 2 PM: S is in office, trying to find euphemisms to describe his annoyance with himself (through this post, perhaps) and wondering why the hell his code never works the first time...grrrrrrrrr...