I’m a little disappointed I’m not dressing up this year. My office isn’t really into it, and none of my friends organized anything. My friends and past co-workers have always looked forward to my costumes. BWAHAHA Sometimes I’d have two costumes: one for going out with friends and one that was more work-friendly.

The only good thing about Hallowe’en today is that my boss isn’t in the office today. No wonder he rescheduled our weekly team meeting to yesterday.

One thing I really hate about these meetings is that they never start or end on time. Another situation came up yesterday that proved to me that programmers should really stick to programming.

I don’t know how long my boss has been managing people, but he should stick to project management, at best. We had a “light” version of our software released yesterday. (It’s just easier for people to use when bandwidth is limited.)

He sent a mass e-mail to everyone who would be using it. I think the e-mail was supposed to tell everyone it was up and running, but it never explicitly said that and gave only a description of the features. He said he got many e-mails asking people how to use it.

When he reported this to the team, he laughed and said, “I can’t believe how many e-mails I got! I didn’t want to insult anyone’s intelligence by telling anyone how to log in. It’s so obvious! I think it’s easy! Maybe I should have added a screenshot.”

Of course he found it obvious – he was part of the design process. And if I hadn’t seen the (poorly designed) interface, I wouldn’t have known either. It sounds like a new piece of software, but you actually go to the existing URL and click a different button to log in. I can totally see how there’d be confusion.

And just adding a screenshot with no context wouldn’t have been helpful either.