on giving up and letting go
don't bite more than you can chew. one of the things i consider hard to live by. i have this thinking that if i make time for something, and work hard enough on it, i can see it to the end.
i have 3 work tickets that i consider my babies. from design to development, and i was hoping until deployment. i'm almost done with the most important piece, when i got assigned on 2 emergency work tickets. i had to let my babies go. it was hard. i wanted so much to see it to the end. i almost killed myself holding on to it for a few more days, trying to balance time and effort among 5 work tickets, 2 of which i need to update every freakin' day. until my tech lead stepped in and said "let go". =P
it's hard to let go of something you're working on. especially in this field of software development. there is some sense of ownership in finishing up work assigned to you. and even more pride that what you started on, with the logic you implemented on it, will get carried out the way you want it carried out until the end.
whenever i pick up work from another developer, i try not to rewrite their codes, unless it's really, really bad... or when it doesn't work. of course, that's our job, to make things work.
anyways, so after i resolved the 2 emergency work tickets, i'm literally "loadless". i wanted to take back my babies, but that's not how it works. so the solution to that is i grab someone else's baby. and that, my tech lead did for me.
i am working now on a couple of tickets. i just had an interesting "hand-over meeting" with the original developer.
obviously, he doesn't trust me. hehe! he fought his way to hold on to the most important piece. to the point that i wasn't talking anymore. let him bite more than he can chew. it's not me who's gonna choke anyways.
i just find it funny. i tackled emergency issues head on, and came out alive. and yet, this guy won't hand over a couple of minor work tickets to me? why, because i'm a girl? as gwen stefani sang... "i'm just a girl"... who can whoop your a$$! excuse me.
i'm not used to the cut-throat environment that this guy is putting up. our team is pretty much results-oriented, and team-based. nobody in the team takes credit for someone else's work. if he's afraid i'm gonna do that... saksak nya sa baga nya yung trabaho nya. =P
i have 3 work tickets that i consider my babies. from design to development, and i was hoping until deployment. i'm almost done with the most important piece, when i got assigned on 2 emergency work tickets. i had to let my babies go. it was hard. i wanted so much to see it to the end. i almost killed myself holding on to it for a few more days, trying to balance time and effort among 5 work tickets, 2 of which i need to update every freakin' day. until my tech lead stepped in and said "let go". =P
it's hard to let go of something you're working on. especially in this field of software development. there is some sense of ownership in finishing up work assigned to you. and even more pride that what you started on, with the logic you implemented on it, will get carried out the way you want it carried out until the end.
whenever i pick up work from another developer, i try not to rewrite their codes, unless it's really, really bad... or when it doesn't work. of course, that's our job, to make things work.
anyways, so after i resolved the 2 emergency work tickets, i'm literally "loadless". i wanted to take back my babies, but that's not how it works. so the solution to that is i grab someone else's baby. and that, my tech lead did for me.
i am working now on a couple of tickets. i just had an interesting "hand-over meeting" with the original developer.
obviously, he doesn't trust me. hehe! he fought his way to hold on to the most important piece. to the point that i wasn't talking anymore. let him bite more than he can chew. it's not me who's gonna choke anyways.
i just find it funny. i tackled emergency issues head on, and came out alive. and yet, this guy won't hand over a couple of minor work tickets to me? why, because i'm a girl? as gwen stefani sang... "i'm just a girl"... who can whoop your a$$! excuse me.
i'm not used to the cut-throat environment that this guy is putting up. our team is pretty much results-oriented, and team-based. nobody in the team takes credit for someone else's work. if he's afraid i'm gonna do that... saksak nya sa baga nya yung trabaho nya. =P
posted by beng at
4:32 PM
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Harbie! Dunno kung pumasok yung una kong comment. I notice na gmail is having problems lately or baka network settings namin sa office.
Ano nga ba sabi ko? hahaha.. Dami ko na-miss na entries. hehehe.. I totally agree with you. Kakambal na ng work naten ang magkaron ng "babies". And hard to let go talaga. Hopefully yung next baby projs mo, hanggang deployment sayo pa din assigned. :p
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Che, at 5:10 AM
kasama talaga sa personality mo ang pagiging loyal kaya nadadala mo sa work :) ma-karma na lang sana si bwisit officemate mo! haha!
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Anonymous, at 10:23 AM
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