One out of four ain't bad

[hrj]

Oddly enough, all my stress at work this week has been completely unrelated to the presence of the international inspectors (see thread_walker's posts). Instead, I'm stuck in an infinite loop of updating and revising a bunch of tables, graphs, and memos relating to my current Big Investigation (tm). Everyone loves the tables and graphs. Everyone wants the memos. But they're loving them to death with constant requests for tweaking and updating. I finally got a chance to do some actual new work on one of my other investigations round about the time I should have been going home. Even staying late didn't save me from getting asked to revise a couple of the memos one more time, so I gave up and figured I might as well leave. I told my principal persecutor ... ahem, QA counterpart that I was starting a pool on when he was going to succeed in making me cry. He asked if he could get in on the action but I pointed out that there was a serious conflict of interest. (There also wasn't a real pool, but I get so mad about stress making me choke up that I have to turn it into a joke.) Somewhere in mid-afternoon I started fantasizing about going out for sushi to de-stress. By quitting time, I'd worked the fantasy up to soaking in a hot tub being fed sushi by beautiful women while getting a shoulder massage.

Relaxed now.

Comments

[cryptocosm.livejournal.com]

Relaxed how? As far as I know, you still don't have a hot tub ...

[beanolc.livejournal.com]

Great imagery! lol!

[mastersantiago.livejournal.com]

You know, I've had that same fantasy. *smile*

[pariyal.livejournal.com]

That's such a wonderful fantasy. As I'm coming down with Bulgarian flu (picked up from Professor who picked it up from an associate of his from Bulgaria) I think I'll go and lie in a hot tub and imagine some beautiful women feeding me sushi.

[xrian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, doncha love it when on the sixth or seventh go-round they pick up on something that's been there all along, but they somehow never noticed before.... and of course it now MUST be changed, or else the universe will collapse. I always feel like asking them why they didn't notice it on the third revision, or the fourth, or....

Then there's the person who doesn't know exactly how they want it done, but every revision you give them, they can instantly tell you it's not *quite* what they had in mind, and wouldn't it look better if.......

[sympathetic noises]