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August 11, 2004

:: it could be worse ::

All you managers out there, business owners, and people with incompetent staff and co-workers: it could be worse. You could be these guys [scroll down to the requirements section].

A priceless excerpt:

We are really not interested in hearing that you need another 2 weeks to complete our 2 week project because: your mother died three times in a year (unless you really do have three mothers -- and next time we hear that, we'll ask for proof!); your unexpected house closing prevents you from working (the closing is NEVER THAT unexpected, we've bought houses); you have to go to a wedding at the last minute in another state; you suddenly have to move out of the area; you have unexpected friends from out of town that you need to socialize with; you forgot the deadline and thought you said 20 weeks for the project instead of 2 weeks; you did too many drugs in the 70s/80s/90s and can't think straight anymore; you thought the deadline was just made up to make you work harder; you had 'top secret' classification in the military and they erased your memory when you got out and you can't remember everything you used to be able to; you hired your buddy to do part of the work and he let you down and didn't do it; you found out you're losing another job and feel depressed about it so you can't work; your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend doesn't like you working so much and needs to hold your hand while you watch TV for four hours a day so you can't meet the deadline; your pet tarantula died and you're too depressed to work; you're hung over; your sister's mother's aunt's niece's daughter got picked up by the cops and you need to disappear for 2 weeks; your internet connection died but you're still able to send ridiculously long emails explaining what happened -- you're just not able to do any work for the next week; you can't connect to the database anymore because the hosting company upgraded to a different version and you don't want to download the trial version upgrade because big brother could be watching you; your laptop crashed and even though you have 6 other machines on hand, you'd prefer to rebuild your laptop for the next month than to do the work that we're paying you for; you forgot that your friends were going to have 3 beach picnics and 4 parties when you said you'd do the work and you completely forgot your aunt's 61st birthday, your best buddy's kegger and your husband/wife's family reunion picnic, and you'd prefer to attend those than get the work done.) etc., etc., etc.

So, yeah. Look on the bright side.