Mark GripResource Associate - Project Management Office| Connecticut Department of LaborWethersfield, Ct, United States
Your boss comes into your office and says, "I've been thinking, I have this idea for the project..." and it's a few days before the deadline. Saving Changes...
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Mark GripResource Associate - Project Management Office| Connecticut Department of LaborWethersfield, Ct, United States
How do you know it's going to be a bad day? Saving Changes...
Usually, just having to get up is already a bad sign...
Seriously now, I can think of two things that have "bad day" written all over them:
- checking my schedule in the morning and seeing I have nothing but meetings all day long
- checking my schedule in the morning and seeing I have absolutely no meetings at all Saving Changes...
Wai Mun KooPMO Director| Intergraph PP&MSingapore, Singapore
When you tell your sponsor something that both of you had discussed in the past but he stares at you as if he is hearing it for the first time. Jamais vu? Saving Changes...
Russell GeakeProject Management Consultant| Deciduous Partners LtdLostwithiel, Cornwall, United Kingdom
agrees with Wai Mun Koo, and would like to raise ...
The REPEATED QUESTION...
I can only give the same answer, perhaps using different words if you are lucky. As I speak the truth, I cannot change it. Deal with it, and lets find another solution.
I have experienced the repeated question in several organisations. The character just has a different face. BUT don't let it get you down, explain that you are busy trying to create a different reality and the more times the question is asked the less time is available to change the answer. Saving Changes...
Elizabeth HarrinDirector| RebelsGuideToPM.comLondon, England, United Kingdom
When I emerge from the underground on the way to work and my BlackBerry buzzes with all the messages that I couldn't receive while I was in transit - before I get to my desk.
I also agree with Julien: meetings all day is just awful. Saving Changes...
Wai Mun KooPMO Director| Intergraph PP&MSingapore, Singapore
Julien & Liz,
If meetings all day is awful, then attending meetings that you don't even have a clue why you were required to attend is a total waste of time. Saving Changes...
