Some Good, Some Not So Good

19. September 2007 by Tara.

Did you ever have a really good day, only to find out that a friend had a really bad day that very same day? How do you react to their plight? It’s probably not very nice to gloat. Hopefully I showed enough compassion today when that happened with me and my cousin, who happens to work with me. She accidentally lost a transcript with 42 minutes’ worth of audio information on it. That’s 3 hours’ worth of actual work time–all lost in a second. I felt really bad and tried to help her and see if the Auto Recovery had done its job. No success. Not so good.

The good news was that our client said that we could turn the files in next week! He didn’t know about what happened, and now he never will know…unless he reads this post! We would have worked feverishly to have it done this week, but now with the extra time, we can relax and focus on what really needs to be done this week.

One of my clients asked me to call him on the phone. “Uh-oh!” I thought to myself, “What did I do wrong??” Nothing, come to find out. We were able to blame it on someone else! Ahh…what a good feeling. Turns out he was on location so it was easier for him to figure things out over the phone rather than with scattered email messages sent from his handheld. From the beginning, I thought he was such a nice guy and today solidified my resolve that he really is. He said we were doing great work and were making things easier on their end. What a great compliment! Good! Very good.

So another day in the life of me. It just so happened that today was one of the good ones on my end, even though it wasn’t so good for my cousin. I hope it’s gotten better for her since the kids returned home from school and her husband came home from work. Sometimes I feel guilty when I savor a good day. Why? Sometimes they’re few and far between, so I’ll take the good so I can remember it when the not so good comes again.

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