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   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

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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