Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Procrastinator

   I had the worse case of procrastination ever today. I didn't have too much to do, but I had this really tedious task to complete by the end of the day if I didn't want to get behind in the rest of my work. I basically had to review over 300 customer accounts to make sure this report was giving me the right information. 
   It took me six hours to do it, but only because I was mostly slacking off and trying to think of ways to get out of doing it. I thought about delegating it to at least three different people, even considered having the new training class do it. They need the practice in the tool anyway right? 
  I even tossed around the idea of not doing it at all. What's the worse that could happen we overcharge the client and pay out incentive that wasn't rightly earned. Hmm...no I better do this.  
   I had to quit for about 45 minutes to go to a meeting at 9:30, which I purposely stretched out to be 45 minutes. It was actually over in 30 minutes. So I go back to this report and work on it until about 11:30.  I get some data I have been waiting on so I can write PEPs. I write those two PEPs and then go back to working on this report again.
   All this time I have been carrying on a conversation in IM with Juiz. We mostly talked about how much I don't like checking this report. At about 1 he comes into my office and gives me a bag of Skittles and starts to bs with me for about 30 minutes. This was probably the highlight of my very boring day. 
   I was supposed to have a call at 1:30, but it was canceled. So I had no choice, but to bare down and finish checking the dumb report. I finally finish it at 2:30, but then I had to send off another report using the data I just verified. I finally finished it all up and left at 4 to get my oil changed. 
   So for the most of my day, I was lazy, tired, and lacked motivation. Good thing I didn't have a ton of work to do and my boss is out of town or might have been in some trouble.

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