Dream Silently

All of you are sweet for the comments left on the last post. This week was better. Tuesday, we had a long heart to heart. He now knows that I don’t like snide remarks or when he uses racial slurs in a non-joking manner. My supervisor was present through all of this. The thing I still don’t like is that I don’t feel that santa’s little helper (thanks for the nick, Rick) is a team player. Where I’m motivated to do things to the best of my ability and get the job done, he only wants to get the job done.

But I’ve made it clear to the others that until they put into writing that I’m the project is mine to manage, then I’ll start managing. Until then, they can go to Little Helper if they need crap instead of coming to me. I came very near to decking KE this week. He was trying to make me responsible for Little Helper’s leave. Unlike him, I had the decency to say something to my supervisor because I knew my “partner” wouldn’t. He didn’t even ask for his leave appropriately. My opinion? He should have been told no. I ask for my leave up to two months in advanced and I have made sure that there is someone that can take my place before I go. See? Little helper has no motivation, which is a great annoyance to me.

Okay, so maybe I’m still overly irritated about the situation. This project is suppose to go for another 2 months at least. I can survive that, can’t I?

I guess we’ll find out.

On other business, I think I found my replacement system for this site. I’ve got a test site running it right now. It’s called CMSMS (CMS Made Simple). The immediate thing I like about this system is the ability to use substitutions. Those that used Diary-X before it’s downfall would understand what I’m saying. Instead of having to put in a string of PHP code, all that’s needed is a simple word in brackets and that gets replaced by the system when the page loads with the php code that word represents. The call it tagging in this program. It’s something I’ve completely missed since having to move onto other platforms. It makes template creation a ton easier, that’s for sure.

I will be giving Wordpress one more chance though. They just upgraded to 2.3, so maybe they fixed all the flipping glitches this time? If not, I’ll keep everyone posted as to when I’ll switch over.