SDLC: system testing

You won't find these in any methodology textbook. Here are the 10 stages of system testing:

1. Unwarranted optimism: "Everything will be fine....it says so in the Plan"
2. Denial: "It must have worked...look at the results again"
3. Bewilderment: "What do you mean, it didn't work?"
4. Confusion: "That didn't work either!?"
5. Panic: "Nothing is working!!!"
6. Despair: "We're doomed...nothing will ever work"
7. Desperation: "Maybe if we call it an 'original bug' no one will blame us!"
8. Bargaining: "Maybe if we defer some more requirements to phase 2 we can get this phase finished"
9. Hope: "It's working now?"
10. Smugness: "I told you it would work. Just like we Planned it."
    

What stage is your project in?