Call me a masochist.
But for the past two days I’ve been in ecstasy at work for having gotten the wonderful chance of laboriously cleaning up after someone else’s mess. It’s not even my fault, it’s a lot more work, I have to painstakingly go through dirty and ugly code, but I’m LOVING it! I’m the employers’ dream-worker!!
I’m not real serious about that dramatic opening, though, so I’ll explain.
That huge load of junk was getting in MY way. All those gazillion redundant, ill-commented, ill-defined, sorry excuses for classes were making my absolute LOVE for work drop to a shameful procrastination spree. And now I finally got the chance to make it nice and clean and elegant and pleasant.
So here’s a tip to employers and managers out there. Don’t just give your awesome tech guys something cool to work on. Give them the power to clean up the trash they find along the way. They’ll stay hours after work and they’ll love it! And after cleaning up they’ll work with a lot more passion on whatever it is they had to do.
