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Subject:Re: Bad Monday defined From:quills -at- airmail -dot- net To:"Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:29:17 -0500
At 1:24 PM -0400 6/11/07, Susan Hogarth wrote:
>(1) Deadline at noon.
>
>(B) Job way behind because of migraines on Thursday and Friday (but
>miraculously not on Saturday or Sunday... hmmmm.)
>
>(iii) My boss decides the entire approach was wrong and that he needs
>to rewrite the entire substance of the ten-page piece. He decides and
>communicates this after I stagger home early on Friday, but does not
>start providing new text until sometime after 10am, after one writer
>has already rewritten her section based on his 'throw it out and start
>over' comment from Friday.
>
>(four) Literal shitstorm - at 10:30 the plumbing one floor up and
>right outside my office door breaks and sewage starts raining down in
>the hallway.
>
>Good news: Deadline me, stink is much better. Bad news: apparently the
>stink is 'better' enough to warrant -not- getting the rest of the day
>off.
>
>--
>Susan Hogarth
>http://www.colliething.com
And after you all come down with diphtheria, or something like that,
will you get to stay home?
;)
Scott
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