On the work front

I have always been a “believer” of sorts of the Murphy’s Laws. But there aren’t many that one can experience when studying. We tend to lie low during those days with not much happening except to be studying more and more books. It is only when beginning to work that we see it all coming back and wonder what great genius he is. I have a screen utility that dishes out maxims from Murphy’s Laws on Work and the one that triggered me to write this is

“There is never enough time to do it right the first time,
but there is always enough time to do it over.”

There are so many examples that I can site from my experience in this position. Any report that is asked is urgent and in most cases I get the communiqué only after the fixed deadline. People are so living in the past and we do yesterday’s job most of the time. We tend to get the figures wrong in the hurry but not to worry, there is always a reply stating that whatever we did was wrong and do it again. This time we would get a couple of days to get it right. Why can’t they give us that time in the first place? I guess I’ll find out when I reach the top.

PS.

(I don’t know if my organisation has a blogging policy. But have I gone overboard with anything?)