The I in Team
For one of my projects the PM is trying to organize an end project luncheon but unfortunately it's currently scheduled for the Thursday of the week before I go on vacation. Oh and it's going to be at a place that is 45 minutes from my office, so basically the entire afternoon is pretty much shot.
Now I don't know about you, but I'm always in it up to my eyes the last couple of days before vacation. I always have a project that needs to deliver while I'm away or just after I get back. This vacation is no different and it's pretty unlikely that I am going to have time to spend time on a long lunch.
So I said I was happy to:
A. Accept tentatively and go if I'm available.
B. Decline and not go.
What the PM wants me to do is:
C. Agree to go on the date picked out.
And the way that they are trying to convince me to go is by trying to "logic" ways that I can get my work done and go. (For example, by suggesting that I could stay late on Friday and just sleep on the plane.) And also to guilt me about how difficult it would be to pick a different date.
You know what I never asked anyone to do? Change the date to suit me.
Grrrrr.
Now I don't know about you, but I'm always in it up to my eyes the last couple of days before vacation. I always have a project that needs to deliver while I'm away or just after I get back. This vacation is no different and it's pretty unlikely that I am going to have time to spend time on a long lunch.
So I said I was happy to:
A. Accept tentatively and go if I'm available.
B. Decline and not go.
What the PM wants me to do is:
C. Agree to go on the date picked out.
And the way that they are trying to convince me to go is by trying to "logic" ways that I can get my work done and go. (For example, by suggesting that I could stay late on Friday and just sleep on the plane.) And also to guilt me about how difficult it would be to pick a different date.
You know what I never asked anyone to do? Change the date to suit me.
Grrrrr.