{"id":88,"date":"2007-04-16T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T00:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catatonicfox.info\/capsule\/?p=88"},"modified":"2007-04-16T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T00:32:15","slug":"i-am-tired-and-not-satisfied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"I am tired and not satisfied&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just came out from a long OTy[1] weekend, and when I said long I meant a 19-hour rally with 3 hours of sleep. All because the project I am with has once again been selected for a security audit and an internal audit will be conducted today.<\/p>\n<p>The unplanned rally is caused by the short notice given to the project and the not-so-good state of our security documentation. Before somebody starts that it is our fault for not updating the security docs as we go along then please give us a charge number for that kind of work before you start pointing fingers. In typical corporate wheedling and cajoling, they (meaning the powers that be, or the power trippers as i call them) say that these should be part of the &#8220;continuous improvement&#8221; (CI) budget of the project. REALITY CHECK: WHAT CI BUDGET? We are on a fixed time arrangement with the client and just trying telling the client that &#8220;we would allocate a portion of the time you bought to spend on security work that is not part of the contract you signed, and thank you for understanding.&#8221;. Couple this with the fact that we are running overbudget for the things that the client actually paid for! It doesn&#8217;t take a super sleuth to figure out that we are between a hard rock and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=PHB\">PHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, I am not satisfied with the output because we are tasked to churn out security documentations &#8220;aligned&#8221; with the corporate &#8220;version&#8221;. No thank you because <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I don&#8217;t believe the return of investment on those documentations is significant.<\/li>\n<li> The template documents provided are either not enough or an overkill.<\/li>\n<li> The person who created those template documents should stop using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=PCP\">PCP<\/a>. Reformatting them to look professional entails too much work.I reserve the right to save my co-team members from the atrocities of using too much colors in a document, and loud ones at that. <\/li>\n<li> If I am going to churn out security measures, then I will at least have the decency of believing those are practical and not just for show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why did I go through it? Because of pressure to pass the audit since the whole office accreditation can go up in smoke for failing the external auditors, and I don&#8217;t have the heart to add more stress on my manager. She already has enough problems on her plate regarding the project going over-budget and CMMi (yes, that effectively makes it a four-letter word) demands for full compliance. <\/p>\n<p>19 hours and we aren&#8217;t even halfway the 100% completion mark. I know I told my manager that what we are targeting now is just damage control but it is really disheartening whenever I see the completion ratio for the project. And after that I also need to consider going back to reality that I am also over-budget on the client deliverable that they want me to submit by end of this month. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>End of rant for now. I need to check what else I can finish before the internal audit today. <\/p>\n<p>[1] OTy, n., Short for O-Thank you, the free version of overtime.<\/p>\n<p>ciao!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just came out from a long OTy[1] weekend, and when I said long I meant a 19-hour rally with 3 hours of sleep. All because the project I am with has once again been selected for a security audit and an internal audit will be conducted today. The unplanned rally is caused by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[98,116,155],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rubbish","category-work","tag-office-politics","tag-rant","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramfree17.net\/capsule\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}