Yeah right..

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

You know what would rock? If all those people who get bent out of shape if I take more than 5 minutes to respond to their problems could manage to do something that I ask them to within, say, a week! Alas, it appears that is not going to be the case, so my question is, how many follow-up emails do I have to send before I can just march into their office, take their computer away and do what I had asked them to do in the first place?

It’s been that kind of day, let me tell you….

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