We've got a major deliverable due a week on Friday, but still the project lead keeps saying to the developers "Wouldn't it be neat if.." and "I'd really like to see it doing this:...". He seems to regard it as odd that I keep suggesting that the better idea is to finish what we need to get it out of the damn door and add the nifty stuff later, rather than re-coding perfectly functional stuff in the rapidly dimishing time we have left.

Of course, being subcontacted at this job, I'm just a code-monkey who does what he's told (which also keeps me out of the politics), and also (thankfully) I'm only responsible for the back-end, with the contantly redesigned stuff done by others, but it's driving me up the wall at the moment! (And I'm not even going to mention the problems of reconciling a SAP system with data flowing in from external companies - if I find the person who put it in management's mind that you can take a number of flawed datasets and end up with perfect data within a week, I'm going to give them a damn good kicking...)

Bah, not that I'm bitter...

Bryan.