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bktheirregularSo, yesterday was a work-from-home day. I had one pile of stuff from one of the partners, and something else from an associate. The associate called me on my cell in the morning asking if it was possible to get her translation donen by the end of the day - I'd stepped out for a bit and wasn't sure I had even brought the documents in question home with me. Turned out I had.
So that got bumped to the top of the priority stack. Then I got a call a couple of hours later from the same associate, telling me that the translation had to be done by the end of the day - right while I was working on the exact damn thing. I found myself regretting that I couldn't slam down my phone - my old clamshell phone, I would have snapped it shut with force, but I made the mistake of getting a smartphone with a touch screen, and I ... er ... kind of missed the "terminate call" button a couple of times.
I got that job done, though. Then I went on to work on the pile of stuff given me by one of the partners, and worked until my eyes went crossed.
This morning, I had just gotten back to that pile - there's half a dozen documents, plus a couple more that are lower priority, but have to be done a week from today. Then a call came from another partner, saying that they needed a translation done on an emergency basis, so that had to take top priority.
Then the same associate from yesterday came in.
"Busy?"
"Yeah."
"OK, I need this translated - an article in the Government Gazette - I've got a translation of the contract on which it's based, but I need you to put it into the form it's in in the Gazette article."
"Okay, but I've got this other thing that's got priority, and another pile of priority stuff waiting behind it."
"Yeah. Can you do my thing by the end of today?"
"Uh, no. I'm already behind on the stuff from the partners."
"Well, maybe if you took it home this weekend..."
She finally found someone else to palm the job off on. And then came by and, with hardly any discussion, dropped another job on me. At least this one's just a small one-pager, and the deadline isn't until Monday evening.
Unless that changes without notice.
Better than being out on the bricks, though, right?
So that got bumped to the top of the priority stack. Then I got a call a couple of hours later from the same associate, telling me that the translation had to be done by the end of the day - right while I was working on the exact damn thing. I found myself regretting that I couldn't slam down my phone - my old clamshell phone, I would have snapped it shut with force, but I made the mistake of getting a smartphone with a touch screen, and I ... er ... kind of missed the "terminate call" button a couple of times.
I got that job done, though. Then I went on to work on the pile of stuff given me by one of the partners, and worked until my eyes went crossed.
This morning, I had just gotten back to that pile - there's half a dozen documents, plus a couple more that are lower priority, but have to be done a week from today. Then a call came from another partner, saying that they needed a translation done on an emergency basis, so that had to take top priority.
Then the same associate from yesterday came in.
"Busy?"
"Yeah."
"OK, I need this translated - an article in the Government Gazette - I've got a translation of the contract on which it's based, but I need you to put it into the form it's in in the Gazette article."
"Okay, but I've got this other thing that's got priority, and another pile of priority stuff waiting behind it."
"Yeah. Can you do my thing by the end of today?"
"Uh, no. I'm already behind on the stuff from the partners."
"Well, maybe if you took it home this weekend..."
She finally found someone else to palm the job off on. And then came by and, with hardly any discussion, dropped another job on me. At least this one's just a small one-pager, and the deadline isn't until Monday evening.
Unless that changes without notice.
Better than being out on the bricks, though, right?
