Once again, it's been a while since I've posted anything - since I've got a couple of hours spare whilst the-toddler naps before school pick up time, I thought I'd pop in and share a little update.

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The End of a Project

It's been nearly 2 months since I shared the news about a New Client in which I wrote:

Whilst I'm not sure I'll be able to work with the old man, primarily due to him not having a clue about web development but being responsible for their IT

It turns out that I can't work with the old man.

Having done my 1 day per week for a couple of months, the old man (who doesn't want to spend all of his time working - he's retired after all) also doesn't want anybody else doing work for the company. He seems to think that if he does everything himself (not realising that his level of competence is extremely low), then he'll save the company money.

Some details... at the end of my first month, the work that I was doing got derailed. The company decided that creating a new product (online) was their priority. Having helped other companies deliver new digital products and knowing that they were inexperienced in this field, I pulled a proposal together. A light touch (from me) version which required 2-3 days effort and a full-on "me-do-everything" proposal which came out at about 25 days.

Part of the thinking was to wake them up to the reality that if you want to deliver a high-quality product to market, it's going to require some effort in planning everything about it - the content required, how the content will flow, user interactions, etc. You can't just let some clown build it without planning it first.

It was a good proposal - simple to understand and detailed enough to know what's required at each project stage... most importantly, how much effort should go into each stage. At a push, I could go from working 1 day per week for them up to 3 days...

They opted for...

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The old man saying:

I don't understand what the-gorilla's going to do

So instead of me guiding them with the light touch - the old man's going to do everything himself. I wonder if they'll tell him that he's only got himself to blame when his complaints about doing too much work in his retirement get louder!

My friend (their Head of Marketing) is also in despair as he's also been side-lined - the old man is literally going to do it all by himself. So fortunately, my relationship with my friend is still good and he'll find a way of getting me to do more at some point in the future. For now though, I'm benched.

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More Time for Steemit?

This will give me a bit more free time and whilst I've been too busy to share much, I've been keeping tabs on some of the goings-on.

There's been a bit of talk recently about downvotes - not just on Steemit but also on Hive. One of the beautiful things about Steemit is that there isn't the proliferation of senseless downvotes that plagues Hive. Whilst there's room for Steemit to use downvotes more to deter scammers, we don't have the morons floating around downvoting people because their post has received too many auto-votes.

Whilst the Hive Hard Fork was painful for all involved, the toxicity, anger and hatred "left" on the day of the split giving Steemit the opportunity to be a place of peace. When scammers (not @weisser-rabe but the user she's talking about) use their accumulated power to downvote innocent victims, it marks a time for us to come together and support those affected - which is exactly what we've seen in response to @frafiomatale's post.

We've attracted a lot of good, kind hearted people to Steemit and it's up to us to keep them here 💪

I've rambled on enough for the time being - drop me a line to share some peace and love

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