It wasn't that important
Fri Sep 30, 2011 3:20:42 pm

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Tomorrow is the deadline for finishing the project that I quit last week. I have been checking obsessively every day and there still haven't been any changes. The deadline will definitely be missed.

If meeting the deadline was so important, then a replacement for me would have been found very quickly. All the complex backend stuff has already been finished. The only "important" changes left were cosmetic. This involved changing the size of text, moving a few things around, changing a few words, etc. My client once lost sleep because I had spelled out the full state names in a drop down list instead of using two letter codes. He typically sleeps from 7pm to 4am, but he sent me a message at 1am telling me that he was losing sleep over this. That gives you an idea of what he considers "important".

I know that he hasn't cancelled the project, because he has been updating prices every day. That means he will launch the site without the important changes that he thought merited repeated harassment. The deadline itself wasn't important either. If it had been so important to start on October 1, then the business would be doomed. That implies that there is no other time when the business could be profitable, which is absolutely untrue. It's not as if there was some kind of cost involved in waiting. He isn't renting retail space or even a warehouse. This troubles me, because I suffered for nothing. I lost sleep and overworked myself for something that wasn't important.