My id (Inner Despot)
After having been a project manager for a week now I’ve started to get annoyed by the technical people. I’m willing to work without a lunch break (let alone coffee or cigarette breaks (I do drink coffee, but I don’t smoke)) to get something urgent done — I did that on Friday — and in my naïvete I expect everyone else to do the same. I was furious when the person who was supposed to be working on an urgent project (deadline on Monday) was nowhere to be seen. I don’t understand why it’s so difficult to do something snap, right there and then. I realise the work isn’t progressing, so I’ll probably have to do it myself on Monday. I can’t really tell the client that I couldn’t keep the deadline because the others weren’t doing their jobs, can I?
I know I’m horrible. I’m sure the others have lots and lots of more work to do than I — even if they have time to frolic and complain that they’re bored. On Friday I was panicking about the deadline and they laughed that I’ll probably throw something heavy at them. I couldn’t, I was too tired.
I’ll be very glad when this 2-week multiple personality disorder is over. I don’t mind doing the technical stuff and I don’t mind doing the project manager stuff (it’s been, despite everything I’ve just said, very interesting and refreshingly challenging). But I can’t do them both, full-time, simultaneously.
Despot — a person exercising power tyrannically
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Ya, tell the client that it’s not done cuz of other people not pulling their weight. I’m sure they’d be very understanding, oh, so and so didn’t do their part? Ok, Minna, we’ll just wait a while. Thanks for keeping us informed
Comment by jafer — Mar 4 @ 2:38
All’s well that ends well — I kept the deadline. Nagging (supportive and kind nagging) helps, apparently. And I haven’t heard back from the client yet (except ‘thank you, this looks good’).
Comment by Minna — Mar 4 @ 14:38