remember the four simultaneous activities i was supposed to attend to last friday? the important meeting, the emergency meeting, the testing at the other building, the talk with my boss. well, i left the important meeting to preside over the emergency meeting, right? this afternoon (yup, it's a sunday!!!) when my staff tested the subject of the important meeting, it failed : } the same tests were conducted earlier and it passed.
it turns out a last-minute design change was done which gave rise to the different result. and the project managers are saying i was at the meeting when the design change was discussed and agreed upon. uh-oh. i am afraid it was discussed during the time i went downstairs for the emergency meeting. i honestly don't remember hearing it. not that i would have opposed. but i would have recommended another round of tests before the final one just to make sure it will really pass the deciding final.
ugh! next time, when something is important, stay put. if an emergency crops up, assign it to someone else. better to know the whole story about one thing than just hear bits and pieces of this and that.
but then, what if just like last friday, my assistant is on leave and the next in rank, i've assigned to another task at another building? yikes!!!
how about i declare that henceforth emergency and important are not allowed to crop up at the same time? if only i had such power... if only life were that simple...
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