Exposed....

My boss quit today and I felt almost like crying. The feeling was similar to the way I felt when my father left me in the hostel ten years ago. I've replaced him as the head of the team and I know I have a virtual hell waiting for me. At least when he was around he used to handle the other team members. I think that's one area I'm going to have a tough time with.

There is an accute shortage of people in the project and a lot of frustration. Attrition rate is very high and consequently higher load on the remaining people. It's a complicated module(they designed it that way!) and some people, even after two years, haven't grasped much. One of such is in my team. He was pouring out his frustration yesterday - it seems at 9 p.m my PL came and asked him to complete some task before leaving. We are almost growing inhuman.

Admin people have been kind enough to arrange for some Dasara celebrations but it only served to irritate me. It's almost funny when on one hand our PM sends a mail asking us to work over this long weekend and on the other, admin wants us to dress up some dolls for Dasara.