I'm sitting here on the plane on the way back from Sydney to Melbourne. I've had a pretty good day, a couple of good meetings with clients, but a reasonably long day. What doesn't excite me greatly about the plane trips back from Sydney is their consistency in delivering some completely shit aspect. Tonight it's my company. These two guys sitting next to me, who I secretly hope will read this blog as I type and then SHUT THE FUCK UP. The problem, you see, is that one of them is a complete "yes man", who doesn't understand any of the basic concepts the other guy is talking about. The "other guy" is just a name dropping asshole who talks over the top of the first guy who doesn't understand anything. It would be laughable if they didn't annoy the crap out of me by spouting their obvious lack of anything whilst talking about... wait for it... software development. We're currently hearing about SDLC's and development processes, however I did hear earlier that "asshole"'s (as he will be known) company had to actually do some manual data cleaning on a PRODUCTION server. And I'm not talking a few records - we're talking 7500 records, done by 4 people across 4 weeks. Now, I'm not exactly scot-free (is this the correct spelling? what does this term mean?) in this regard - there was a time when I had a team of developers manually fixing code, but hey, I was young and stupid at the time :) But yeah, we're knee deep in Macs, AJAX, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL and a few other hip, groovy languages. And the sentence, "I'd like us to move to Oracle" was uttered a while back (with no other reasoning behind it). No, "Yeah, it would give us great performance", or "our clients are asking for it", etc. Rather, I suspect "asshole" was just trying to impress "yes man". Actually, "yes man" says "no way" a lot as well. I'm sure that these two will singlehandedly destroy the IT industry in the next 12 to 18 months - I'm just not sure how. Perhaps it's asshole's thoughts of trying to tell his customer base that his product (an online PDF validator) cannot be used in IE running on Windows. I'm sure that will go down a treat... And asshole continues to talk about the places he's been - I mean we've only been on the plane for 45 minutes or so, and I know how many times he's been to Sydney in the last 24 months, the route to South Africa, and how well he knows Canberra. In fact I even know that he's had 4 meetings today and was late for one by 10 minutes. "Yes man" said that was pretty good (what else would he say?).

Anyway, that's my rant for today (one worthy of Skogg) - he would've loved this trip. Why don't I put on my headphones and zone out to something awesome - well, it's the car crash mentality I think. I'm fascinated, horrified, filled with sorrow, sympathy and anger all at once. And whilst I pray to the god of mouthzippers that these two will, as previously mentioned, SHUT THE FUCK UP, secretly, I hope they won't, so I can continue my condescending internal dialogue.

I'm such a bitch :)