Friday, December 19, 2008

It's All About Scrambling

It seems to be a similar scene in Cube City each week:
  • Mondays are manageable.
  • Tuesdays are trying.
  • Wednesdays are whacked.
  • Thursdays are when people really start working.
  • Fridays are frantic because of Thursdays.
  • Weekends suck because you're making up for manageable Mondays.

I asked a cube dweller, why? Why this vicious cycle? He broke it down for me:

  • Mondays are quiet until 2:00 PM, when the client starts to feel like working and sends us some feedback.
  • Tuesdays and Wednesdays are for scrambling as we try to determine how to react and respond to the client's feedback.
  • Thursdays and Fridays are for the hard work we do based on our scrambling earlier in the week.
  • Weekends are for tying up any loose ends based on two days of scrambling through our reactions and two days of scrambling through the work.

Then it's time for Monday, when we get to rest for a few hours before the vicious cycle begins again.

Anybody got any pain meds to make it stop?

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