The Cranky Backside

Since starting this blog a few short weeks ago, the Cranky Product Manager has become an Internet celebrity of sorts, her email inbox overflowing with two, maybe even three, emails.

The Cranky Product Manager knows full well that her massive fanbase has an unquenchable thirst for information about her crankiness and crankitude. She will indulge you by answering a few "commonly" asked questions.

1) Why doesn't the Cranky Product Manager post more often?

Because she is working 70 hours a week as an actual product manager, simultaneously pushing one major release of her product line out the door while researching and planning for the next one. Rest assured, it is not because the Cranky Product Manager actually has "a life." 

2) Why is the Cranky Product Manager so cranky?

Despite popular legend, the Cranky PM is not naturally cranky. She was made that way by all the over-confident developers, incompetent marketers, unrealistic customers, indecisive prospects, hysterical sales people, unknowedgeable support engineers, annoying competitors, whorish industry analysts, idiotic magazine reporters, effed-up airlines, unfathomably bad drivers, and her egotistical fellow product managers.

3) Is the blog photo a genuine depiction of the Cranky backside?

Alas, no. The Cranky Product Manager has never had jeans that fit so well. And frankly, fit aside, it is debatable whether her posterior is as slim as that depicted in the photo. (Although the Cranky Product Manager's better half, aka Delightful Husband, assures her that it is. Smart man.)