There are certain days that are just 100% fracked from the get-go. You wake up find out that you’re an hour late because you slept through your alarm. But hey- it’s all good –at least you missed all the morning traffic, right?! Wrong. There’s a 6 car pileup and none of the lanes are open - you sit there and throw yourself one tiny confined temper tantrum in the front seat of your car.
Finally traffic is moving. You get to work just in time for the client meeting and you’re feeling pretty darn good about yourself – looks like the day might turn around! Wait… where are your meeting notes? Where is everything you prepared last night? YOU STAYED UP UNTIL 2 IN THE MORNING getting it all done. FRACK! Your files and everything else you needed is sitting right there on kitchen table… AT HOME! Okay – you still have the power point presentation – you KNOW you emailed it to yourself last night.
You keep your clients waiting in the conference room while you desperately try to locate the email, you’ll need to quickly throw it on your flash drive… if you could just FIND THE DARN THING! Vaguely you now remember receiving a send/receive error as you started nodding off in front of your computer last night – CRAP – you were going to resend in the morning… which, you’re now realizing you forgot to do.
At this point you might as well just give up and go home. Seriously, you can’t walk into that conference room without any of the materials you need. What the heck can you do? Nothing. Might as well pop a piece of Happy Gum for Your Crappy Life into your mouth, take a deep breath and decide to just do it all better tomorrow. Fake sick. Go home. Who cares if you get fired? You have Happy Gum for Your Crappy Life – what else do you need?!
