Frickin' Magic Show

Work is a magic show: there are these guys who know how everything fits together in this horrid hodge-podge of stuff. No one else has any any clue, and half of what's done is 'just done' because that's the way it's done, you know.

I get the feeling I'm not the only guy digging through 11 different redundantly kept and overlapping documents in order to find out today's method for digging through this rat's nest of code and then learning how I'm going to modify, test, promote and build it.

Of course, it's not really possible to explain it all to us - I think the first rule of Fight Club is never to talk about Fight Club, after all - so we need to all line up and ask these very busy guys these very simple questions so that we can get back to the business of catching up on the work that's been so delayed because the VPs needed to save a couple bucks and so fired the rest of the guys.

Newbies out of college, you have no idea what you're getting yourself into.