I really dropped the ball today
June 16th, 2008 | by David |I don’t usually write blog posts in the middle of my work day, but I need some self-therapy. Get ready for a lot of ‘I’s.
I was given an assignment by a person a couple of rungs up my management ladder at the end of last week. I thought it was completely ridiculous. I told her why I didn’t think it was necessary. I told her why the information was already there. She held firm though and said this was the expectation and that she needed me to do this. So what did I do? I procrastinated. I couldn’t get my mind around doing this because I thought it was stupid. I waited until the very last minute and then did really poor job on what she needed. Which then put her in a bad spot with her management. In the end I dropped the ball. Now I feel like crap because I let her down.
This isn’t about working at BigCo or a start-up. Everyone has people that rely on them for something. And that means sometimes you have to do some thing that you think is stupid. Maybe its hiring a lawyer to validate some color by numbers Terms of Service document or buying a fax machine so that the one person at that one big client can get you documents. Some things are worth fighting for or you can just knock it out and move on. I choose the wrong option this time.
Dammit.
