The Overlap by Costa Lynn

Author:Costa, Lynn [Costa, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780985754723
Published: 2013-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

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Kensie and I got back to our floor at MetroGen in time for a 1:30 meeting that was scheduled to go until 2:30. I was supposed to have an open half hour between 2:30 and my next meeting at 3:00, and then the rest of my afternoon was booked. I had planned on finding a quiet cubicle somewhere at 2:30 and spend a half hour thinking through what I was going to tell Zack after work when we met at Cerise: about Dustin coming home this weekend and my intention to break up with him, and all that.

Shit! Why did this have to happen! Why couldn’t Dustin have had to stay in Chicago all weekend like he was supposed to and like he had told me only yesterday? Things would be so much easier; I could put off this breakup scene at least a couple more weeks until I was absolutely sure about Zack. Shit!

But when I looked at my e-mail on my phone I saw that a calendar notice had come in for a brand new meeting between 2:30 and 3:30, meaning that between 3:00 and 3:30 I was now double-booked. So not only did I now have no time to “rehearse” my conversation with Zack, I also now had to deal with this double-booking problem. I looked at the sender and it was somebody from our client whom I had never heard of, and apparently didn’t much care that my calendar already showed me booked for half the time of this meeting.

So right before our meeting got started I – gulp – texted Dave Evers and mentioned the double-booking, and asked him how he wanted me to handle the double-booking. I could either go to the new one at 2:30 and leave halfway through, or I could stay for the entire hour of this new meeting and then arrive half an hour into my next meeting that would have already been underway. I suppose I could have made the decision on my own but I figured that since Dave was in charge of the project he should at least be aware that I had gotten double-booked by our client. If he came back to me and said “you choose” or something like that, then I would.

Instead, here’s what he texted back to me:

You need to do a better job managing your calendar - looks bad to client when you are double-booked. Contact meeting organizers for overlapping meetings and ask them what to do. Don’t let it happen again

I repeat, from many times so far this week: what an absolute total asshole!

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