My manager calls me.
Manager: “Do you know Andy?”
Me: “Yes, he is one of my best friends”
Manager: “Great, because you will be working closely with him.”
Me: “Brilliant news. So does he know about it? How do we go about splitting up the work; is it a big project?”
Manager: “Well, simple answer; you aren’t splitting it; you are doing it all.”
Me: “Oh.”
How is that working closely? After I got more information, it turns out all I was doing is merging some of Andy’s work into another code branch. Andy could have just done it. Complete hype for nothing.