I have just completed hour number one of a three hour meetings going screen by screen of a new system that I am working to design training for. The contractor that is working for me is going through this is the smallest of details and driving me insane. After I burn my entire morning in this meeting I have 2 more. This will require that I spend 3-4 hours at home tonight to catch up on all the things I was unable to complete today.
Oh yeah did I mention the other project that I received yesterday that has a 3 week deadline with no additional resources attached to it. I am already over dispatched and they want me to complete more and more crap. What else...did I mention that I have 4 more people that I supervise and they get small projects that I have to manage as well? Oh and the specialist that I lost about a month ago is not getting replaced this year and we are not certain when they would be replaced if at all next year.
We talk about the need for resources and how we can’t take any more projects then I get slammed and then told we have no resources. No kidding? Did I mention that my main competition for promotion has two projects, long timelines, and plenty of resources? If he asks me one more dang question that I could care less about, I am driving across the street, buying two hand axes and a whetting stone…sharpen them up and follow him home to give him a real world example of Moral Decay.