humanity

When did people become so amazingly self-absorbed? Today a customer sent a project with a deadline that just couldn't be met with all of the other work in front of it. The initial problem was that he told the first project manager he talked to that he would need it when he arrived in town the next afternoon - and then he told the afternoon project manager it was needed for a meeting at 6 a.m. (no one has meetings at 6 a.m. - what is that?!) When the afternoon project manager insisted that she couldn't promise to meet his deadline, he actually told her to bump all of the other projects already in so we could finish his. Why would he think that we would just let other projects be late? Why would anyone think that they were more important than anyone else?

Right before I left, however, there was a member of the League of Pissed Off Voters. He was copying statements of incidents from the election- people who were discriminated against, etc. It was nice to see people out trying to make things right.... or as right as possible. It's refreshing to run into genuinely nice people.