Welcome back to real life AKA the work you've been blowing off for three weeks

By punketta on Mon, Jan 7, 2008 2:21 pm

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Well hello, desk, you look like you've packed on the pounds over the holiday!  Empty soda cans, pencil shavings, crusty coffee mugs, crumbs and candy wrappers and piles and piles of half-read manuals, memos and presentations all of which is coated with dust and failure. Three weeks worth of work ignored in favor of eating the leftover holiday party food from other departments less miserly than mine, sampling cookies and candy brought in by overwhelmed co-workers, shopping online and generally blowing off any and all opportunities to do actual work. 

Except now people have started asking about "the target date of completion" of my "deliverables". Prior to this, the only deliverables I had been responsible for involved a summer job in college when I worked for a pizza place as the delivery driver. I was terrible at it. I had just started school, wasn't familiar with the town and this was before the days of portable GPS devices.  Basically, there was a town street map in the restaurant they wouldn't let me take with me, so I tried to write down how to get to whatever house I was delivering to, or trick myself into remembering.  This almost always failed, because the other o were always smoking me up in the basement of this place.  Also, I never cared. So I guess this whole "deliverables" thing is pretty static.

Plus the pizza place regularly ran out of cheese, so it was almost definately a way someone laundered money rather than a way to carry on a proud pizza recipie.   

Um, so yeah.  Welcome back to work.  I think I'll be going to get a giant coffee from Dunks now.