Flee

I'm going to run away.

I'm going to pack my bags and move off to somewhere and become a recluse.

Its starting to look like everything's on me, and that's fine. But then suddenly I'm being blamed.

I'm either being blamed for responding slow to clients, not training or enabling the team sufficiently, not delegating tasks enough, or hoarding clients to myself (really?).


I'm going to pack my bags and move off to somewhere and become a recluse.

I'm going to run away.

By far the strongest worded email I've ever sent

Hi, that is nowhere near a project plan.

1.       We’re number 2 (this makes no sense to me, we signed up with your company to co-develop something, and now we’re on the back burner?) – how long will job #1 take to complete before our task starts? = X days

2.       How long will it take to code? = X days

3.       How long do you want to take to test your code? = X days

Fill in the X.

Please. All I’m asking is for some numbers so that we can calculate forwards how long this will take. Telling me that we’re #2 in line of the queue makes no sense when I don’t know how long that queue is going to be, or how long you will take.

We want to feedback to the client on a date in the near future, but cannot because you have repeatedly failed to give a timeline on this.