Got chewed out by a senior coworker today for some work I put forward for review. Granted, the work was put forward as part of a learning exercise, so it's as much to be used as it is to be learned from, but I'm still pretty bitter at myself for it. I keep mentioning to my boss that the other new people tap me in for advice on stuff pretty often, and my confidence has led to me building up a larger pool of work to be reviewed (theirs has been addressed first), so I'm kind of afraid I've just built a tower of shit or left a bunch of stinkers in there and made more work for myself since I feel the need to revisit it all. Really, I should've paid more attention to my work.
Not that there's a clear measure of how much work we have beyond the work we've been writing, since all the other development lines can't figure out what we're supposed to test, re-test, when to test it, or where, as development environments get frozen to un-fuck and then someone decides not to do the thing to unfuck the environment making it impossible to measure the value of any testing done pre-or-post unfuckening. Most of the deliberation about this is above my experience/pay grade, so it's no skin off my back for now, but who knows, things could get crunchy.
I'm also a little bitter that the acceptance criteria we're writing work for tends to be vague or spotty; we have to write null cases for the acceptance criteria to catch weirdness by implementation, but we can't interpret/extrapolate what happens outside the acceptance criteria (which is sometimes the null cases), and the rule is simultaneously "if the acceptance criteria is vague, throw a defect at the development team and let them figure it out" and "don't throw defects at the development teams for things that are not explicitly in the acceptance criteria or they'll stop paying attention to anything you say when they come back and say it's intentional." Granted, there is some intersect where all of the above can be true, but I'm feeling a little chafed that frequently not all of the above aligns and it feels like instructions are conflicting.
It's all pretty ordinary work stuff, really.