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Apr 12, 2005
the emergency This morning, we had a crisis at work. A catastrophe, really. It was horrible beyond words. It's the kind of thing that you wish you never had to go through, and hope that you never have to go through again. It was really, really bad. It was just terrible. So, here's what happened. Last night, some people were having a meeting in one of the conference rooms that went past 7:00 pm, when the mailroom closes. So, there was nobody to clean that conference room. So, it had to be done this morning at 7:00 am when the morning crew comes in. Also, it needed to be set up for a meeting that went in there at 8:00 am. So, one of my coworkers too care of it. However, she failed to do one thing: open up the blinds!!!! That's right, she left the blinds closed. Luckily, the meeting had been canceled for some other reason. So, fortunately, no clients had to go into a conference room that had the blinds closed. Can you imagine what might have happened if they had though. We would have looked so unprofessional. We probablly would have lost that client, and with the money we lost, the entire firm would have had to have shut down. So luckily, we were able to avoid that crisis. Except, dispite not using the conference room, the attorney who scheduled it happened to walk by and notice that the blinds were closed. So, he called and yelled at the director of administration. He yelled at my boss, who then yelled at my shift supervisor. So, we got a "talking too." Do you know what the worst part is??? I didn't make that story up. It's true. Someone actually got that mad about the blinds being closed. Why?? I don't know. I can't imagine any scenario at all where I would get that upset about that. But, then it occured to me . . . I'm being too hard on the guy. I mean, he's under a lot of pressure. Imagine if the world revolved around you. That's a lot to deal with. It can't be easy at all. So, I should cut him some slack. He's got a lot on his mind. posted
by Unknown @ 11:29:00 PM |
