So, the stars have weirdly aligned and I have literally NOTHING TO DO TODAY. Every task on my list is in someone else’s court for the moment. I cannot remember the last time that happened.

I think it’s happened maybe twice in the 3 1/2 years I’ve been in this position?

I was asked if I wanted to move an item from the next sprint to the current sprint, but I politely declined. Let’s keep it in the sprint that actually has a fuckton of time to get things done.

And I am not going to go searching for work today – it will find me if needed, as it always does. And I’m hardly a slacker, but after last week, I needed this, and I’m going to catch up on training hours today.

Since last September, my old team lead had me report every fucking hour of my day back to him, and I didn’t realize how much that stressed me out until he quit and we stopped that BS. Cause I couldn’t have a day like this, he’d be hunting down shit for me to do.

Our capacity was set for 6 hours of testing per day, and I always felt like shit when I didn’t have more than 7, and that’s so not healthy and I’m glad we’re done with that shit – it’s OK to just have a day where YOU’RE ACTUALLY CAUGHT UP ON SHIT.

Of course, there is that one voice in my head going “you don’t have anything to do today cause they’re about to fire your ass” but I told it to shut up and enjoy training time and reading antiwork on reddit.