Ugh

What a week.

I won't get too bogged down in the details, because frankly they're a bit depressing, and I've spent much of the evening trying to kill the relevant brain cells with homebrew. But it was a rough one at work - too many hours, doing frustrating and unrewarding work. Then, on Thursday, we got the least inspirational corporate speech I think we've ever received.

I know lots of you have heard some of the various stories/complaints of mine about work recently, as my company moves from fun, researchy place to a more corporate atmosphere, as we go from the development part of our project towards production.

It's understandable - the work is more serious, and we have to start tracking the details of our process much more carefully if we aim to get to production mode. But it's also a hell of a lot less fun.

It was cool to be working for less money than I could be making in a more corporate environment when I was really having fun working. When they told us that in order to get a bonus this year, we would have to take a temporary pay cut, and the raise was dependent on hitting a schedule which was something between optimistic and unrealistic, that was pretty damn annoying, but I got over it.

But on Thursday, when we were told that, because we were now behind the schedule, everyone is being asked to work harder, and more, and that, to encourage this new policy, there was going to be catered lunch on Saturday? Well, suffice to say, at some point, if you keep asking people to work more, and get paid the same, or even less?

Well, that's just a bad week.