Rising to the Doom

[firstfrost]

So, due to various people being lame or miscommunicating, and some denial on my part, I ended up getting poked by the producer for Patience yesterday afternoon: the program designer had punted or vanished or fallen in a hole and wasn't answering email, so could I do the program? For Thursday? Of course "for Thursday" really means "for Tuesday" because Copytech wants two days turnaround (unless they're hosed and want three, which could be a problem). So now the program is done and to Copytech, and I've taught myself to use InDesign (which is, I have to kind of admit, a better tool for graphic layout than LaTeX is, much as I love LaTeX). But now "program designer" will haunt me until the end of my days, as my attempt to foist the task off on someone else this time was a catastrophic failure.

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

As long as you prevent other people from suffering negative consequences they won't find a way to get by without you.

[firstfrost.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but it's all about self-image. :)
I'd rather be the exasperated hero who gets to leap in and save them than the person spent her holiday goofing off playing computer games. (If I hadn't had the day off, it might have been a different story).

And I do usually say "I'll do the program, if you can't find someone else" - in this case I even found the someone else, but it turned out she was flaky (which I don't quite consider my fault, but it does sort of make it part of my catastrophe).