Crazy long day of moderate disappointment
I need an icon that's just a picture of an exhausted woman falling over.
So, it's been an exciting few days with the new business. Don't give me any of that, "it's only Monday" crap. I've had a much longer week than that already.
So Friday, one of the guys had a meeting with The Slacker. He's the one guy out of the 4 of us I don't know. Amazing reputation. Well liked by everyone. But he barely bothers to show up for meetings, when he does he has almost nothing to say, and has yet to come through with the most minor things promised.
After a stern talking to, he admitted he's not giving it his all. In fact, he basically has a bunch of independent projects he's holding onto for himself rather than share the work, BUT he still seems to think we're going to share work with him.
What a dick.
The person who sat him down for a talk told me not to read too much into it. He thinks The Slacker is so coasting on his reputation and is currently so damn lazy from being burned out he's never going to get around to all this other alleged work.
So at today's meeting, the second person we'd brought on said with 4 people the business looked pretty darn sexy, but with 3, well, it looks like too darn much work. Yes, really. She wants to be able to take off random 3 and 4 day weekends whenever she wants. When she works, she wants to make sure it doesn't get in the way of her social causes. So, rather than earn more money, she's bailing, too.
Rather than scrap everything we've done so far we agreed to become a loose confederation of consultants under the same umbrella. I think this was mostly said to save face, not out of any desire to be part of the business.
I'm tired of all this waiting. Let's do it or stop pretending. Today I got us a custom logo designed by a local artist then quotes on business cards. The Slacker then said he didn't want business cards with our communal name on it and isn't sure he'll make it to our next meeting. After that, our Social Crusader stopped replying to any emails.
So tomorrow the one other enthusiastic person and I have a meeting. I'm going to start by asking him if he's seriously IN on this or not. If not, tell me now, mister, so I can get back to seriously pounding the pavement.
If he's still in, I'll honestly be better off than I was when dealing with The Slacker and The Crusader. So far, he's been pretty darn motivated. There's enough work to go around that I can't do it all myself. I have my fingers crossed.
And if he's not, well, tomorrow, I may be back to the drawing board.
It'll be a somewhat restless night.
So, it's been an exciting few days with the new business. Don't give me any of that, "it's only Monday" crap. I've had a much longer week than that already.
So Friday, one of the guys had a meeting with The Slacker. He's the one guy out of the 4 of us I don't know. Amazing reputation. Well liked by everyone. But he barely bothers to show up for meetings, when he does he has almost nothing to say, and has yet to come through with the most minor things promised.
After a stern talking to, he admitted he's not giving it his all. In fact, he basically has a bunch of independent projects he's holding onto for himself rather than share the work, BUT he still seems to think we're going to share work with him.
What a dick.
The person who sat him down for a talk told me not to read too much into it. He thinks The Slacker is so coasting on his reputation and is currently so damn lazy from being burned out he's never going to get around to all this other alleged work.
So at today's meeting, the second person we'd brought on said with 4 people the business looked pretty darn sexy, but with 3, well, it looks like too darn much work. Yes, really. She wants to be able to take off random 3 and 4 day weekends whenever she wants. When she works, she wants to make sure it doesn't get in the way of her social causes. So, rather than earn more money, she's bailing, too.
Rather than scrap everything we've done so far we agreed to become a loose confederation of consultants under the same umbrella. I think this was mostly said to save face, not out of any desire to be part of the business.
I'm tired of all this waiting. Let's do it or stop pretending. Today I got us a custom logo designed by a local artist then quotes on business cards. The Slacker then said he didn't want business cards with our communal name on it and isn't sure he'll make it to our next meeting. After that, our Social Crusader stopped replying to any emails.
So tomorrow the one other enthusiastic person and I have a meeting. I'm going to start by asking him if he's seriously IN on this or not. If not, tell me now, mister, so I can get back to seriously pounding the pavement.
If he's still in, I'll honestly be better off than I was when dealing with The Slacker and The Crusader. So far, he's been pretty darn motivated. There's enough work to go around that I can't do it all myself. I have my fingers crossed.
And if he's not, well, tomorrow, I may be back to the drawing board.
It'll be a somewhat restless night.