Quotes

As an update, the meeting requests at work have not slowed. This coming week has 18 meetings from one person.

Here are a few quotes from this past week that really made us laugh.

(Sitting in a room giving a presentation that the head guy is giving in a few days to some very important people. I finish the presentation and click to the “End of Slide Show” screen.)
Head guy: That’s it?
Me: Yep.
(Silence)
Head guy: Hmm.

(Driving while the rest of the passengers look out the window.)
Passenger 1: (Looking wistfully out the window) This is my life.

(Giving a presentation where we had a placeholder slide we had copied and pasted from an earlier slide and colored the text red.)
Me: This is a placeholder slide.
Unaware guy: That’s the same text, it’s just red.
Me: Yes, it’s just a placeholder until we have the information to fill the chart.
UG: But it says the same thing!

And the one that takes the cake:
Anyone who is completely unaware of what they are asking us to do: Make it happen.

If you tell me to make it happen, I will.  The product might not be what you wanted, it may have been procured illegally or immorally and it might actually hinder progress in the long run, but I WILL make it happen.  Be very careful if you tell me to “make it happen”.