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Our project manager is a past-retirement-age consultant who prefers to communicate the old-fashioned way, which is to physically pop in to my office asking questions about stuff that isn't even urgent and could easily be dealt with in jira or by e-mail FFS. Way to go disrupting a dev, break my flow and deprive me of my joy of working! He even says it himself: "May I disturb?" My answer is "No, but now that you already did, spit it out!" He's a nice and funny guy, I give him that. But I don't like this particular behaviour of his. I've complained to him directly and also to my boss, but to no avail. This is where devRant comes in, to let the steam out. Anyway, if I have it my way, we will definitely *not* be hiring the same consultant for our next project.

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    And...he did it again. "murmur...murmur..that issue with that network resource you need access to, is this something I can help with?"

    No! You're a project manager, *not* a dev or tech or anybody else with any skills to "help" with anything. If you'd bother to actually read the jira issue, you'd see I've already put the infra guys on the issue. They can help me. You're not helping me. Barging in here to disturb me is the opposite of helping!
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    Not only is our Project Manager a windbag who goes around disturbing devs. He also doesn't do what he's supposed to do. I just noticed that some stories I've delivered to test like weeks ago, are still not assigned to someone to test! I mean, WTF?! What's the point of developing anything if it's never released because of a sloppy/lazy PM who doesn't pull his shit?! :(

    I'm so looking forward to this project finally being over so we can move forward, dropping some dead weight. External consultants are not cheap, and there are way better contenders in-house. Most of my colleagues are truly amazing :)
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