She's back again

Cripes, it is a pain in the ass being an anonymous blogger.  One becomes constantly paranoid that her identity will be revealed, and that a pink slip and unemployment claims will be the end result.

Picture, if you will, the Cranky Product Manager doing a horrendously stupid thing at her real life job that -- if anyone was even paying the slightest bit of attention -- would surely have exposed her as the author of this here site.  Within 5 minutes of realizing this grave mis-step, the Cranky Product Manager blew this site away. No time to backup the site, except for a quick export of all posts. In desperation, she pressed *DELETE WEBLOG* and *poof* it was all gone.

Fortunately, it seems that no one was paying attention.  Perhaps it has blown over. Perhaps it is safe to come out of her cave again and breathe the fresh air of civilized society.  Perhaps the Cranky Product Manager can rebuild and venture in the blogosphere once more, but a little bit wiser this time.  OK, a lot wiser as she was an unbelievable idiot for letting this happen.

So the site is republished. Mostly.

Alas, all the photos on this blog -- including her marvelous logo image -- are gone.

And a bunch of links are effed up.  If you ever linked to a specific CPM post, you might want to redo your link. So sorry about that. 

And the site looks like crapola now, with all the missing images and the yucky plain green design.  It physically hurts the Cranky Product Manager to think of her site looking so freakin' disgusting.  Cripes again.

The CPM apologizes for her disappearance, especially to those who gave a s*&$. She gives a shout out to the folks at On Product Management for filing the equivalent of a missing persons report. And to the fine, upstanding individuals who emailed her, inquiring about the CPM's health and whereabouts.  Love to you all.  Kisses. Every one of you.

Stay tuned for the next post, being slaved over this second.  It's called How to Gain the Respect of Development in 10 Easy Steps. You'll love it.  Swear to Cheesus. Unlike her usual bitch-and-moan posts, the Cranky Product Manager promises that this post will actually be useful.

See you soon. Promise. And again, apologies.

Comments

[bob corrigan]

I can understand staying anonymous to protect you from cyber-stalkers. But staying anonymous because you're concerned that someone you work with will find out you're blogging about being a product manager?

Unless you're writing thinly-veiled stories about co-workers, of course.

Or unless your company has a policy that specifically states you can't blog.

In any event, good to see you "back". Now let's step up the post frequency, hmm? Or are you spending your free time on useless endeavors like "sleep" and "parenting" and "donkey baiting"?

[Ron Kaplan]

It is good to see you back. I think the anonymity of your blog is such that losing your job over it is grounds for a hefty lawsuit. And please, don't try too hard to be useful. We do enough of that as PMs every day. Besides, venting is much more fun. Cheers!

[tagrafiti]

This loyal fan (and fellow CPM) is just happy to see you back and looking forward to more of your cranky and articulate observations of the high price of annoyingness we pay for the glamor of managing software products.

I would love to hear your take on Cliff Atkinson's Powerpoint book, if you're into that sort of thing... I'm trying to make my product presentations less booooorrrrriiiiinngggzzzzzz and this book seems like it might be a life raft...