Quote Of The Day

Take yourself off the back burner.

That's what I heard from my boss Monday morning.  Apparently my stress and angst was palpable over the phone line.  Telecommuting can really amplify little irritations into major head-banging mountains of stress.  Multiple projects (one being mismanaged by one of our equally stressed business analyst) and two recent mistakes in some billing research I was working on just put me on the edge.

My question to the boss was simple: "So, I have the Trouble Ticket project, Aging Reports, Phone Switch Looping research and the Intranet project.  Which should I pull off the back burner?"

She laughed... "You, sir, need to take yourself off the back burner."