on hold

Hurry up and wait. Sitting on it. Sit right there in that chair at your desk. We want it now and we want it yesterday. Rushing to multitask. Click. Send an email. Answer the phone. When did you want this by? I'm almost done. That's not fast enough. Click. Take on more. More. More jobs. More promises. I can do it. Click. Almost done. Click. Click.

Quality? Quantity? Choose your poison... I want quality. I want to pad the timetable. I want to be realistic. Let's be realistic... Let's tell people what we can do and what we can't do.

You finish the job. You send an email. Click. Click. The job is done. The fire is out.

The response: No response. Click. Click. No response.