Change is good!

So, on Wednesday evening I was asked to gather feedback on all of the editors, to rate them from best to worst. I was told by the client that she was "just curious" and no changes would be made. Of course, whenever you hear that, you know there will be changes! I was also asked to perform one task I was not looking forward to.

On Thursday, I spoke with each project lead and gathered the feedback to send back to the client. I also performed that one daunting task. It ate at me like a thousand hungry fire ants. Shortly after, I was asked to set up meetings with all of the editors individually, and then one big meeting with everyone. The easiest way to do that was a spreadsheet.

Later Thursday, I got to hear the changes. They are fantastic really! I am excited. I wish I could tell everyone what they are, but I believe that will be revealed during the big meeting on Monday. These are things I've wanted for this project for years, even when it was on LiveWork. I am really very excited.

I just won't get to participate in them. :( Again, not a bad thing. My network is very slow to the point of being worse than dial up very often. The oDesk tracker stalls my network out. I've run a network analyzer with the tracker on and it is HUGE packets of information constantly streaming back and forth nonstop. That, and it is a huge memory hog too. When I run it, I can't work online. On any computer. In other words, if I have it on one computer running, then even on my others, I can't work online. I can't even check my email. The tracker uses that much bandwidth. And when you're on a network that is equivalent to DSL 10 years ago, it's a problem.

So this morning I received the email that there was no way we could compromise on this. We arranged my transition date, and I sent the email to my teams. That's the one thing I always insist on: being the one to tell my teams. I certainly wasn't going to make a big fan fare out of it. It's really very simple. After Monday, I won't be there anymore. I told the team why so that they knew it wasn't anything bad, but I saw no need to halt work and create a big deal over this minor change.

I have built a fabulous team on the Mocksa project from writers, to editors, to leads. I know that this team is going to rock it out hard and heavy. I am so proud to have served each and every single one of you. This is a fabulous project to work for as well.

Who knows what the future will hold. It may very well be that I wind up back at this project sometime farther down the road. Either way, I am very happy with our experiences over the past five months. I couldn't have asked for a better client to work with, nor could I ask for better team mates.

Thank you everyone!