title: Mission: Intractable category: work content: |
You know it's going to be a gloriously lovely and wonderful day at work when:
The pager wakes you up too early, and when you log in to tackle the problem, those working on it don't even seem to acknowledge your existence.
You realize a little too late that, on your way into the home office to address said problem, the cat urine sitting on the plastic runner is now on your slipper because you weren't looking where you were stepping.
Your cow-orker in another state asks you to process this file in production, and attaches to her request neither the file itself nor a pointer to where it can be obtained.
Said out-of-state cow-orker has a history of not responding to requests for further information about a problem in a timely fashion -- a history which easily perpetuates itself.
HR and IT butt heads very loudly just on the other side of one of your cube walls; at least one of them leaves the meeting in tears.
Your manager calls you into an unannounced meeting to tell you of all the new work you've inherited, despite there being space in the budget for extra headcount.
At least the dog had the decency to cooperate with me this morning, even if she did require some play time.