Ever have those weeks

Ever have one of those weeks?

 

I’m sure it’s a culmination of several years but this week seems to have been very hard.  It was capped off by my lead grilling me on a decision that was made 2 years ago.  Basically the situation was why with a development of a project why we left out certain functionality.  I remembered the overall reason but he wanted specifics and I couldn’t remember it.  I finally said ‘I can’t remember but if you want me to research it I can.’  He wouldn’t say yes or no and I left it at that.  It’s frustrating because I’m finding I often get a job to do but only get ¾ of the information and then when I complete my work I get asked why I didn’t do this or that and it’s usually because I didn’t know that this or that was a requirement or even an option.  I’ve come up with a plan but am uncertain if it will cause more friction.  I plan to recap each discussion with an email (if it is required) so that the lead can say yes or no to what I’m thinking I should be doing.  Hopefully this will eliminate the “I thought I told you to do….” 

 

Have a good week.