Balls

I don't understand why some people are just yes men or women. Why the hell can't these people build up the courage or the balls to stand up and say what is right so that process is followed. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people don't follow protocol in the work place. A lot of problems are created when you bend the rules for just one person and I am not talking about inside the office. This isn't about sick time or vacation days.

I am talking about not getting the promised results that are asked for from subsurvient companies. I don't mind working together, but I don't want to work with people who are actively working against me.

Here is a simple example. I am a programmer, I work on an accounting application which I will call ACCT. I am not an accountant and my accounting knowledge is limited. Why the hell is it that when I ask the head of AR (Accounts Recievable) to test something for me, she ignores me? Then later, I am told to test it for her, to which I say NO, I am not an accountant, I cannot pretend my testing will be accurate at ll. This is very irrisponsible of the manager above me to ask me to do especially when that same manager doesn't know how to test it either! That is bullshit. Plus it isn't helping anyone. I don't care how busy these damn accountants are, if i am developing something for you, you should test it out to make sure it works. Not really me responsibility. I will always try to make it work the first time, but goddamn it, again I am not a goddamn accountant, why would I know if this is working or not.

The most unfortunate thing about all of this is, we currently do not have a business analyst. If we had a damn business analyst these problems would be solved.