I had a deadline at work today, a significant project that's been going on for months and counts for a significant portion of my performance rating (I almost said "grade." Somehow this thing has made me feel like I was in high school again.)
I didn't think I was going to meet the deadline, frankly, and since I've never seen any project here actually meet a deadline, I wasn't worried about it...until a couple weeks ago when my boss "held my feet to the fire" (as they say in office-speak) and explained that it was a "hard" deadline.
So I got them a "deliverable" about twenty minutes ago. And according to my boss, I met my objective. Yay, me...except I still have quite a bit of work to do. See, the project is "finished" in an objective-meeting kind of way, but to say I'm done would be like saying your house was done because you were living in it...but you were getting your water from the neighbor's garden hose, cooking by microwave because you have no stove or oven, and it didn't matter that the AC wasn't hooked up yet because the holes in the walls were still minus the actual glass windows.
Posted by Nic at October 29, 2004 03:05 PM