I had looked forward to a nice easy Friday night, drink a few beers, eat some dinner-maybe watch a movie. Then the phone rang:
“Listen, the leadership is going to be swamped with the rest of all the proposals that are due next week, you look like you are pretty far along-the VP wants to go over yours tomorrow at noon. Any problems?”
Well, I can think of more than a couple, I mean besides the fact that I loathe working on weekends:
Unfortunately, “no” was not really an option-especially when they might be looking to send people to the bread lines in a few months. And -to tell the truth- he really IS going to be swamped next week with proposals.
This is not going to end well.