The Bloody Doors Off

Tonight I did something completely anathema to me.

I put myself first.

Let me back up.

Got an email this morning from an agency I work with frequently. A past client contacted them, and asked if I specifically was available to work on a job this afternoon and tomorrow.

Of course I said yes and.

Had a Teams meeting in the early afternoon. Discussed the job details, was given samples to familiarize myself.

Link to the project comes in; it’s using the bastard child of PowerPoint and DropBox, SharePoint. That’s the first hurdle to overcome. I examine the slides; they’re not using the slide master. Another hurdle. All the fonts need to be changed. Not a problem. Except.

Once you change the font, the text block formatting gets wonky.

I say again. This is SharePoint.

They want me to source some logos. Fine.

They want me to use more targeted imagery. Google is my friend.

Oh yeah, in the middle of this I got an emergency request from another client. That one sailed right on through. Turned and finalized it in an hour.

Here’s another thing about SharePoint. You can share it. There were four other people working on the deck at the same time as I was trying to format it. I’d move past one page, making note to come back and clean it up, go back to it and find out they completely rejigged the page. Then there are the two times edits I made didn’t get saved because it was being updated by someone else.

I took a break. Walked Auggie.

Came back. Saw that they were still editing and adding pages.

So I called red.

I scrolled through my call history, found my recruiter’s number, and called.

Make no mistake, I haven’t quit the job.

It’s being handled.

And hey, look. The panic attacks have stopped.

Now if only the butt cheeks would unclench.