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bktheirregularSenior Partner: "Are those translations almost done?"
Me: "They're going to take a week at least."
Senior Partner: "I thought they were going to be done by Wednesday."
Me: "No. That just can't be done."
Senior Partner: "Wednesday - that's what you told me."
I may have said Wednesday at the earliest - but apparently Wednesday's what stuck in the Senior Partner's head.
And that wouldn't be happening without a time machine, even if I worked nonstop every hour since I got the task. That's also not taking into account the flat-out illegible portions of the original text. (I'm working off a photocopy of a photocopy, and probably several more generations removed from the original.)
Never again. I swear I am never again giving even a guess at an estimated time to completion on a requested job until I've put in at least a day's work on it.
Me: "They're going to take a week at least."
Senior Partner: "I thought they were going to be done by Wednesday."
Me: "No. That just can't be done."
Senior Partner: "Wednesday - that's what you told me."
I may have said Wednesday at the earliest - but apparently Wednesday's what stuck in the Senior Partner's head.
And that wouldn't be happening without a time machine, even if I worked nonstop every hour since I got the task. That's also not taking into account the flat-out illegible portions of the original text. (I'm working off a photocopy of a photocopy, and probably several more generations removed from the original.)
Never again. I swear I am never again giving even a guess at an estimated time to completion on a requested job until I've put in at least a day's work on it.
