There are times, like today, when I’m convinced that my clients live in some alternate universe where you can slow down time so you can finish projects. I imagine that this world also has streets made of candy, and rivers of appletinis. It must be a really splendid place to live because all my clients seem to be residing there just about now.
I’m currently working on 8 projects-no lie. There are 4 that are due by year end. That would require that I make 3 clones of myself, and that we all move into my cubicle until the end of year. The other day when one of my managers told me that I had to the training ready to go by the end of November, I almost guffawed on the phone.
Me: “You realize, don’t you, that we have less than 15 business days to complete that?”
Manager who lives in Lala Land: “Doesn’t that give us plenty of time?”
No, dear Manager, it does not. Especially when you consider that the Legal department takes 3 weeks to review everything. That means that the training would have had to be done BEFORE my department had ever been assigned the project. Strangely enough, we do not predict the future, and can therefore not create training when we don’t know that you need our help.
What I’d really like to do is waltz into my next meeting with these 2 signs:
Is that wrong?
3 responses so far ↓
1 La Libertina // Oct 30, 2008 at 7:14 pm
I dare you! Do it! Then you can update your blog more often than once a day because you’ll be without a job.
Yeah, that’s just what I need right now-to be out of a job. -CS
2 Valorie // Oct 31, 2008 at 6:38 am
This is way too funny and how many people can relate to this? Good job!
You know what? It’s so awful that so many people can relate!! We’re all getting the shaft. -CS
3 Dog // Oct 31, 2008 at 10:33 am
Maybe you could get a small lapel pin that says “NOPE” and you could just point to it constantly.
That’s a great idea! -CS
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