Cry me.. Cry me….

I’m slowly training people not to put me on the speaker-phone. <names removed for their safety>

Earlier today, one of the support guys called and asked the following question:

Support: I asked <the developer> about this feature and he said it was impossible. So I wanted to call you and just confirm.

Now, before I explain what ensued, feature creep is my achilees heel. I hate feature requests that show up in the middle of product design that nobody bothered to submit before. Especially now, when OWN is kicking ass and everything is on the up and up. I’m dedicating this year to sticking to the deadlines, shipping stuff and basically delivering. Something we’ve quite frankly sucked at in the past.

Vlad: Ok, what would you like?

Support: Well, you know that ____? Yeah, well…

Now I know this feature request, it will save us 1 minute every month that we have it happen. So I could be rude, cut him off, hang up and tell him not to bother the developer.

But for some reason, I was in a very good mood. Very good mood = Complete Ass.

As he was describing the feature I started humming the Justin Timberlake song – Cry me a river.

Then I started to sing.

It went downhill from there 🙂

Sadly, they are learning Vlad speak. “So when you say it’s on the to-do list does that mean it’s going to get done or is that Vlad for it’s never, ever, ever going to happen?”