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No, really. It can happen apparently.
I now have a new test lead. He won't really be working with us until the end of Feb., but hey! A new "manager"! Maybe this one won't be from the "benign neglect" school.
Aaaaaaand my feature team had a meeting where real live useful information was given and discussed. Hurrah! Now if I could just get some answers to my lingering questions about what it is *exactly* that we're doing, things would be lovely.
Over the past weekend, The Husband discovered that I have a near-phobia about algebra. I was doing my C# homework (and oh! how I still don't want to learn programming, but it's now a job requirement), and freaked out when I hit the chapter on Boolean logic. Now, I know that I have some acquaintences who would swear on a stack of bibles that I am not in any way, shape, or form connected with anything to do with logic - but they're wrong. I can think about things logically, and frequently do. An eccentric wardrobe does not automatically disqualify one from being able to think things through.
But ... programming logic is presented in terms of algebra. Which I suck at, and always have. So when I started reading that chapter, the words on the page translated in my head to "lalalalalala incomprehensible gibberish that you don't know! and won't ever understand!". The Husband eventually talked me down from my panic attack (while marveling that I was getting that freaked out by the subject), and got me to where I could read the chapter and parse some sense from it.
The good thing about all this? Apparently there's some sort of pact among all the developers I work with to ensure that I understand programming. 3 different devs have taken time to come to my office and make sure I understand what I've been reading about, and to answer any questions I have. I'm not really sure why they're doing this, but I'm greatful. And because of this, I now have a handle on the concepts of Boolean logic and bitwise operators. Yaaaaay!
(Mind you, I still have to fight fight fight to comprehend some of this stuff, I still don't want to learn it, and I know that it will never come naturally to me. But it's reassuring to know that certain of my co-workers think it's fun to spend time explaining it to me.)
I now have a new test lead. He won't really be working with us until the end of Feb., but hey! A new "manager"! Maybe this one won't be from the "benign neglect" school.
Aaaaaaand my feature team had a meeting where real live useful information was given and discussed. Hurrah! Now if I could just get some answers to my lingering questions about what it is *exactly* that we're doing, things would be lovely.
Over the past weekend, The Husband discovered that I have a near-phobia about algebra. I was doing my C# homework (and oh! how I still don't want to learn programming, but it's now a job requirement), and freaked out when I hit the chapter on Boolean logic. Now, I know that I have some acquaintences who would swear on a stack of bibles that I am not in any way, shape, or form connected with anything to do with logic - but they're wrong. I can think about things logically, and frequently do. An eccentric wardrobe does not automatically disqualify one from being able to think things through.
But ... programming logic is presented in terms of algebra. Which I suck at, and always have. So when I started reading that chapter, the words on the page translated in my head to "lalalalalala incomprehensible gibberish that you don't know! and won't ever understand!". The Husband eventually talked me down from my panic attack (while marveling that I was getting that freaked out by the subject), and got me to where I could read the chapter and parse some sense from it.
The good thing about all this? Apparently there's some sort of pact among all the developers I work with to ensure that I understand programming. 3 different devs have taken time to come to my office and make sure I understand what I've been reading about, and to answer any questions I have. I'm not really sure why they're doing this, but I'm greatful. And because of this, I now have a handle on the concepts of Boolean logic and bitwise operators. Yaaaaay!
(Mind you, I still have to fight fight fight to comprehend some of this stuff, I still don't want to learn it, and I know that it will never come naturally to me. But it's reassuring to know that certain of my co-workers think it's fun to spend time explaining it to me.)