My time is not an unlimited resource.
Nov. 28th, 2011 04:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularPartner calls me at 3:10pm to see if I can do a translation check. I say yes (current job on the top of the stack is not absolute priority). Task gets emailed at 3:11. I start work immediately (well, within about three minutes, including time to download the documents and load them up in Word; my computer at work is quite slow). That brings us to about 3:15.
Associate (who has featured in this journal in an antagonistic role before) sends me a different document at 3:18. Before I even have the chance to properly bang my head against my keyboard, she comes in the door.
Me: (making frantic negative waves of my hands) "No."
Her: "But I haven't even told you what I need yet!"
Me: "Still no! It's going to have to wait, whatever it is!"
Her: "At least open up the email and let me show you."
I finally relent enough to open the attached document.
Her: "I just need this one column translated. It shouldn't take long."
Me: "Okay, but I've just been given this other task that needs to be finished by tomorrow."
Her: "If you've got until tomorrow to do that other job, then you can take an hour or two to do mine."
Me: "Look, once I finish the other task, I'll see what I can do about yours. I don't know that I'll be able to get to it today, though."
Her: "...just let me know."
Still trying to find a polite way to let the Associate know that she doesn't get the right to bump the Partner off the top of my priority queue, and that, frankly, she's abused my willing nature enough that she'd better get used to hearing the word "okhi".
Associate (who has featured in this journal in an antagonistic role before) sends me a different document at 3:18. Before I even have the chance to properly bang my head against my keyboard, she comes in the door.
Me: (making frantic negative waves of my hands) "No."
Her: "But I haven't even told you what I need yet!"
Me: "Still no! It's going to have to wait, whatever it is!"
Her: "At least open up the email and let me show you."
I finally relent enough to open the attached document.
Her: "I just need this one column translated. It shouldn't take long."
Me: "Okay, but I've just been given this other task that needs to be finished by tomorrow."
Her: "If you've got until tomorrow to do that other job, then you can take an hour or two to do mine."
Me: "Look, once I finish the other task, I'll see what I can do about yours. I don't know that I'll be able to get to it today, though."
Her: "...just let me know."
Still trying to find a polite way to let the Associate know that she doesn't get the right to bump the Partner off the top of my priority queue, and that, frankly, she's abused my willing nature enough that she'd better get used to hearing the word "okhi".
