jeriendhal | How NOT to impress your customer

Tuesday, 4:30 pm: Printer sends request for map missing from their info for the directory print. Total estimated missing to be 500+.

4:35 pm: Royce has a panic attack, convinced that A) He screwed up, and B) He is SO fired.

5:00 pm: Go home to pick up The Boy from daycare. Leave Steve to clean up after him.

5:15 pm: Discover that left house keys on desk at work. Scream obsenities.

6:00 pm: Pick up boy, swing by Tracy's library to get her keys. Cry into her shoulder in frustration.

Wendsday 2:00 AM: Wake up. Can't get back to sleep.

7:00 am: Arrive at work. Start hunting up maps that Steve couldn't find.

11:30 am: Skip lunch, keep working.

3:00 pm: All maps that can be dug up from the archives are found and burned onto discs for express mailing. Estimate we're still missing 30+ maps, which will have to be done in an emergency request to our cartographer. An expensive emergency request. Royce is still SO FIRED.

3:30 pm: Printer send revised report. The CORRECT report. Only two maps are missing. One of which shouldn't have been in the directory anyway. Entire day has been wasted.

3:31 to 5 pm: Royce giggles his head off in relief, in lieu of screaming.