I got called into a meeting this at 11:00 this morning. In the meeting Bruce asked if I could work on allowing customers to use eCheck payements in addition to credit cards. It wasn’t part of the sprint, but he asked if I could get it done by next Thursday. I was waiting on some information for other tasks, so I started working on it right after our meeting. I stayed focused and worked through lunch. I got it done by 2:30. Both our QA people were out today so I said it would be ready to test on Monday. Bruce was impressed and came into my cubicle to thank me. He said he forgot to bring it, but he had a $100 gift card to give me to say thanks for the work I have done lately. He said it was just between me and him, and it wasn’t from the company, it was from him personally.

The funny part about it was that others could in the cubicles on both sides of me could hear him loud and clear, so I wonder how much he really wanted to keep it between me and him. The guys kind of joked about it afterwards.

In any case it’s always nice to get an "atta boy!"