Frog and Goat

A course that I worked on was supposed to “go live” today. I got to work and checked both places where people should have been able to access it and the course was not there. I sent an email to the people who should have done their jobs and then waited until after 9 to be able to see the course on our website. The person at our client site who will upload the course into their learning management system also sent an email asking where’s the course because it’s not where you said it would be. Great, our client thinks we haven’t done our job.

The person in charge of elearning at my organization comes in and sees the emails and makes some joke about was I up all night waiting for the course to go live. I said no but I am a tad ticked off that the course isn’t there. He looked at me in disbelief. Yeah, I should never be in charge because when we say we’re going “live” on a day the day starts at midnight as far as I’m concerned. When I asked about whether or not we could run cron jobs he didn’t know what that meant. He’s in charge and he doesn’t know basic terminology?

Then I asked myself why I even care. I care because we said we’d do something and then we were late and lame-assed in our completion of it. And, that’s why I can’t be in charge. Because I give a damn about doing what we said we do when we said we’d do it.

Must stop fist of death.