Ten words that carry a working day: the meeting that could have been an email, the deadline, the colleague covering for you.
The agenda for the meeting arrived four minutes before it started, which is its own kind of message. We spent the first half on an update nobody had asked for, and the second half discovering that the deadline had moved. My colleague offered to cover for me on Friday so I could finish the report, and then quietly asked whether I could handle the workload at all this month. I said yes, which was a guess; I have done overtime every evening since Monday and the pile has not moved. Afterwards I wrote to the client, apologised for the delay, and promised a draft by Monday. They postponed the review, which helped nobody but felt like mercy. Everyone is behind on something; we simply take it in turns to admit it.
a list of the points to be discussed at a meeting
the latest time by which something must be finished
a person you work with
the amount of work a person has to do
a short report on how something is going
an early version of a document that will be changed
to do someone's work while they are away
to move something to a later time
to deal with something successfully
time worked beyond your normal hours
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