Just confront the problem, Melvin.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 | General
Today, I walked into my manager’s office and closed the door behind me. I explained to him that I’m idle 85-90% of the day and that I want more responsibility. I explained that I assumed that this was in his best interests - there’s plenty of work that needs to be done over a short period of time.
It worked! He sat me down for a meeting with one of the head haunchos and carved out a nice sized piece of work for me to take ownership of. I could feel all of the stress and resentment flowing right out of me as I left that meeting.
So today, there was no need to soothe myself as I typically do with an audio recording of an air conditioner. As a result, I overheard the other developers engaged in a spirited debate about the system’s design. One of the developers, I’ll call him Bright and Eccentric, turned to me and asked “Melvin, how do you think we should handle this problem?”
And just like that, I became a bona fide member of the development team.
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