| http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/55ABE840-AC30-41D2-BDC9-06BBE2A36665.htm What a day. Every 3rd Wednesday we have a staff meeting at 7:30am. So I get up early at 6 this morning and watch some tv before I go back to sleep. I get up, shower, eat some breakfast and head into the office. I got in at 9am and as soon as I get in I see everyone in the conference room. Oh shit! I mouthed and quickly grabbed a seat. So I've been at a client all week because he needs financial statements by tomorrow to take to the bank for a loan. So I've been working with the accounting manager/controller, a mid-40s Flip. On Tuesday the president expressed concern that we weren't going to finish everything on time, so I had to assure him that things would get done. Even if it meant working late nights. So Tuesday night the president doesn't feel too well so he decides to leave early, around 5pm. I was planning on working until at least 7pm to give myself a buffer in any additional work I had to do today. Well, five minutes after the president left, the brown lady starts packing up and goes home. She tells me she'll finish some things I need to review today. So I come over and just as I had expected, she's not done. In fact, she's not even working on it, she's sorting out the daily sales receipts. So I ask her why she's not done and she starts rambling that she had to take care of this and take care of that. So I made a comment that she needs to prioritize better. We need to get this done today! So I'm working, plugging along and I realize we don't have September's information. The FS are going to be from Jan - Sept. So I ask where it is and she realizes it's all with the president, who isn't coming in. Coincidentally he calls a couple of minutes later and she explains that she needs him to fax over the reports I had just asked for. As the reports are coming in I take a look at them and realize we could have just printed them up from the computer. So I ask her why we didn't just print from the computer. It would have saved us time because we wouldn't have had to wait for the fax. She says there's one report that isn't in the computer so she needed to get it from the president. Turns out that report only contained about $10k of income whereas the rest of the information I was waiting on was around $200k. So I tell her if that's all we were waiting for, she could have gotten that little piece of data to me later on, since we had the bulk of the info. She tells me, "I don't know about you, but I want my information complete. I know the information isn't important to you, but it's important to me" So I tell her I agree, it's important to have complete information but if you have a big chunk like we do, than we should just work with what we've got, even if it's incomplete. Somehow, she doesn't agree. So she starts to disagree while raising her voice, so I start talking back and raising my voice. "Listen, it's all about prioritizing. This report is more important than the other. If you've got two bills to pay, one is $200k and the other is $20k, while both are important, you obviously need to place more importance on the higher dollar bill. RIGHT?" All of a sudden, she starts crying and breaking down. "You don't understand what I'm going through! I know how to prioritize!" Boo hoo, boo hoo. WTF? Since I'm such a cold-hearted bastard I just went back to work, besides I wanted to get out of there early. So we work in silence for 10 min. Then she comes over to grab some files and I offer up a mini-apology. "I'll admit I don't understand what you go through but can you understand where I'm coming from? I don't think you realize how urgent things are right now. That's why I talked about prioritizing." Right then and there she starts bawling again. This time it's cause I was "talking to her like a little kid. I know what prioritize means. You don't think I know what that word means?" So this day has cemented my belief that bitches will do nothing but slow you up! I know brothas are big but this is ridiculous! 
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