* * * * *
The process of our process is to process the process to ensure the process
has processed the process
Bunny was helping me with my “self-review [1]” since I was at a total loss of
what to even say. “You aren't built for dealing with bureaucratic processes,
are you?” she asked.
“No,” I said. “I'm not. I never have been. I remember back in fourth grade—”
“No! I don't want to hear it!”
“And then there was that time in middle school—”
“I'm not listening!”
“So I guess you don't want to hear about high school then?”
“La la la la la la la la la!”
Yeah, my rage against the bureaucratic process goes back a long time.
I mean, I understand that processes are at times required. There can be good
reasons to have a process so everybody knows what to expect and get
consistent results. But this “self-review” is just not one of them. I
eventually spent over eight hours trying to say enough to avoid the “rejected
due to cursory responses” (never mind them being “meaty enough” and I still
don't know if I succeeded at it). And the weird thing is, the majority of the
“goals” didn't even apply to what I do! They were more geared towards a
manager than a programmer.
Sigh.
This is almost making me want to work with the Protocol Stack From Hell [2]
again.
Almost.
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2018/12/05.1
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2012/01/31.1
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