For me… that was always when the phone rang with some idiot begging me to put in a few extra miles or hours, to come in the next day. It never failed!!!
I worked with a guy who made a freaking career out of suddenly finding a horrible problem, at 3:45 pm, right before the weekend, that we needed to resolve then and there before anyone went home. In every single case we'd been going all week long with that same problem, no problem at all, fat dumb and happy. But come Friday late afternoon it was all hands on deck with that bastard. And we'd all have to work late to get it fixed. Afterwards he'd get an "atta-boy" from management and the rest of us would get nothing but an extreme case of red ass. It got to the point that I'd sneak out early just to miss the shenanigans. I'd swing by his office and tell him to his face, I'm leaving before you start your shit, see you Monday. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
This Friday, a customer texted irately asking why we hadn't read his mind about what he wanted instead of providing what he asked for. Not exactly how he put it but that was the gist of it. Anyway, it wasn't working for what he was trying to use it for. 4 PM, not 4:30, but close enough, ya-think?
I worked with a guy who made a freaking career out of suddenly finding a horrible problem, at 3:45 pm, right before the weekend, that we needed to resolve then and there before anyone went home. In every single case we'd been going all week long with that same problem, no problem at all, fat dumb and happy. But come Friday late afternoon it was all hands on deck with that bastard. And we'd all have to work late to get it fixed. Afterwards he'd get an "atta-boy" from management and the rest of us would get nothing but an extreme case of red ass. It got to the point that I'd sneak out early just to miss the shenanigans. I'd swing by his office and tell him to his face, I'm leaving before you start your shit, see you Monday. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
ReplyDeleteThis Friday, a customer texted irately asking why we hadn't read his mind about what he wanted instead of providing what he asked for. Not exactly how he put it but that was the gist of it. Anyway, it wasn't working for what he was trying to use it for. 4 PM, not 4:30, but close enough, ya-think?
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