At work, I keep running into this little communication problem with my boss. We get lots of pressure from above to move things out at the end of the month. All the reporting is done on a monthly basis, and my boss's boss watches our statistics like a hawk. I have these huge things I'm working on, with thousands of pages of stuff being submitted in just the past couple of weeks. I can't even get it all indexed, much less examined, considered, researched, and worked into a revised final report, by the end of this month. So imagine my horror when today, after weeks of hearing, "Just keep plugging at it," I heard instead, "So, do you want to do a final report, or present it in a meeting?" Obviously he was talking about something that would happen soon. How soon? That would be tomorrow. Yeesh.( Read more... )