Sometimes I wonder why I even bother.

This is so fricking true. "I fixed this massive issue we were struglling to fix for awhile now", "cool cool go do x,y, and z"

Why does this always happen

I worked late Friday and put out a PR about 8pm for a bug. At standup this morning I reminded the team about the bug and asked for a review.

The architect had to sign off on this change since it is going out with the Friday release. By 6pm tonight, one teammate reviewed it and no response by the architect.

Because what has happened is that between then and now, the client has changed his/her mind. Probably. So that high priority thing you just finished is worthless. I mean, some of that code is worth gold and definitely useful. But as a whole? Like stepping on your soul with smug satisfaction levels of worthless.

Sorry. It's not you, really. The client's just an unsatisfied asshole.

That Wally loves to tell me we're working on a hot fix... I know it's a hot fix, you called me on my day off to WORK ON the hot fix! Thanks a lot, Wally!