Spinning My Wheels

This image sums up my day. All week long, I've been the ranking "officer on duty" at my office. In fact, I've been the only company officer on duty. Tuesday was "work like a dog" for both me and my assistant--in the office. We got three days worth of work done in a day, each on separate projects. I worked a deal with him Tuesday afternoon in which we would both be "on duty" Wednesday and today, but would trade off work-from-home days, then both be back in the office on Friday.

Yesterday was dead as a doornail for both of us, with him at home and me in the office. Today might have been nothing for him in the office but was nutso for me working from home.

Again, I got several days worth of work done by logging remotely into my office PC from my den, and my assistant, who really was there, knows it. I didn't drive him nuts, but he is well aware of what I got done, after we traded a short IM session around 4:15 asking if Ed had already left for the day.

I've had it up to 7'6" with whiny sales people on the Left Coast getting all panicky, and sending freaky email and phoning every three minutes demanding something within five minutes that they'd never formally put in a request for, for a client, because their year-end revenue depends on li'l ol' me!

People, if your ass (and your bonus) depends this badly on my ability to turn on a dime for you, with no warning, then you'd better be prepared to either: 1) learn to, and do, the work yourself, or 2) forego your revenue recognition and bonus.

With little to no distraction, I can accomplish three days worth of work in a day, but not five days worth of work. The fact that I got it 90% done instead of 100% done is your problem with which to deal. Nuff said.