Comments | kalypso_v: I do not win

kalypso_v

I do not win

Mar 03, 2010 18:55

I do not win; I lose appallingly. I should really be using my "Because I'm useless" icon.

I could still put in anything from two weeks to two months' work, but as we have to finish in two days my colleagues have told me to stop - STOP! - because they can't finish if I keep sending them more corrections ( Read more... )

work, icon, misery

Comments 18

julesjones March 3 2010, 19:27:34 UTC

Dinner and a play later this week?

kalypso_v March 5 2010, 20:34:35 UTC

Also, there's three hours of Hamlet awaiting your viewing.

vjezkova March 3 2010, 20:40:53 UTC

Don´t do this to yourself, don´t. It is actually not a defeat...time is relative, you know:-)
*Hug*

kalypso_v March 4 2010, 03:55:55 UTC

I wish time were a kindly uncle, who could slip me a bit more of it...

sallymn March 3 2010, 20:41:05 UTC

Poor you (we have just finished our mad season, so I am unwinding... rather faster than expected)

But I love the icon :)

kalypso_v March 4 2010, 03:54:56 UTC

It was your story that inspired it! I'm not entirely satisfied, but I think perhaps its basic style goes with Administration overalls.

jhall1 March 3 2010, 21:05:32 UTC

You are not useless - except possibly when it comes to regular hair washing. :) Don't go beating yourself up.

It sounds as though you might need a better system in future for prioritising corrections, though, so that your colleagues receive the most important ones first. (Or perhaps they already do, and it's only really trivial ones that are left, in which case maybe you are too much of a perfectionist.)

kalypso_v March 4 2010, 03:53:32 UTC

We don't all agree on the priorities... but I think on anybody's standard I've failed to catch up on a lot of the important stuff this time.

glitterboy1 March 4 2010, 01:08:37 UTC

You're not useless, and you certainly don't lose. It seems as though the work has become worse and worse over the years, to the point where you could never get it all done. Which is a shame, because it means that, however good a job you do with the things that you do manage to read, you'll always be focussing on the things that you *didn't* manage to read. :-(

I hope that the next couple of days go well. Your colleagues will be glad to know that you're there, if they need you, whether for reading or for emergency research.

kalypso_v March 4 2010, 03:48:39 UTC

Oh, I gave up on ever managing to do the lot again some years ago. But I was so far short this year, and that after they gave us a two-week extension. And I'm very conscious it's my fault, because the others have also had their mothers die in the past few years, and that didn't hold the job up like this.