Thursday, July 19, 2012

Formula for a bad week

Here is my current formula for a bad week:

Day 1: Find out that no one has seen colleague for 2.5 days. Spend time collecting contact information for him and trying to hunt him down. Find out that he has died.

Day 2: Since colleague is from another country, spend all day gathering information on life insurance, bank account, location of the remains, transportation of remains back to the country, and make hotel reservations for colleague's non-English speaking parents because they will be arriving the next night.

Day 3: Go to the dentist, volunteer in an exhibit full of screaming kids (since it's raining and so everyone is indoors), spend half of the evening trying to communicate with colleague's roommate.

Day 4: Continue to spend half of the day calling and/or texting back and forth with colleague's roommate and calling/texting/emailing back and forth with boss, who is meeting with colleague's parents.

Day 5: Because no one bothered to tell you all of the information that you needed when you asked for it on Day 2, you spend day gathering and sorting more information and make/answer phone calls to be able to fill in more details for others.

Day 6: Take colleague's parents for meetings with people who knew colleague. Take parents to colleague's desk area so that they can take the belongings that they wish to keep. Try to wrap up as much as possible because the parents are flying out at 7 am on Day 7. Take parents to dinner.

Day 7: Gather a small amount of information on colleague. Hope the ordeal is mostly over. Go to get in car that evening to go pick up CSA basket. Realize that sometime between the dentist visit on Day 3 and 5:15 pm on Day 7, your car has been broken into and will not be paid for by insurance because the stolen items and damage will probably come to less than your deductible.

Day 8: Today. Here's hoping it goes better than the last 7 days.

No comments:

Post a Comment