Having executives constantly telling me they urgently need a report and I have to be the one who does it, making me feel like the earth will implode if I don't get their TPS report to them by COB today, and then once I perform a minor miracle and clear enough time to do it, they constantly come back either asking for changes (even when I gave them exactly what they asked for) or worse, claim the report is wrong or that a report looking at apples "doesn't match the metric reported" for oranges.
I can't remember!
That doesn't sound much like a response from a guy who has been hinting retirement may not have been a good choice....I can't remember!
Not true actually. However I am guilty of pushing back whenever it's suggested that retirement is the only option that makes sense once anyone reaches FI, or as another member here paraphrased it 'anyone who chooses to work is retarded.' If someone is lucky enough to get paid to do work they truly enjoy for whatever reasons, that choice is perfectly respectable.That doesn't sound much like a response from a guy who has been hinting retirement may not have been a good choice....
Navy training command HQ used to ask us to submit weekly timecards for all our instructors. (Yeah, but they sure weren't documenting overtime.) One week I forgot and nobody pinged me. Two weeks. Three weeks. So I got ratey and decided to see how long it took for someone to catch on.After 4 tries got the report that the boss's boss wanted, then she asked for it every Friday. Sent it to her 4 times, then had one of those Fridays where everything hit the proverbial fan so didn't get it done. She didn't ask for it on Monday, or Tuesday, or...so I didn't do it the next week either. Finally after about 3 weeks she asked where it was - I told her the truth (that since she hadn't asked for it after several days I thought it was no longer needed) and she said "well, I guess you are right, if I need that information again I'll just ask for it". Unfortunately, before I decided to ER, I probably wouldn't have had the guts to do that.
Performance reviews. I bailed out when Megacorp went from semi-annual performance reviews to quarterly performance reviews.
Having executives constantly telling me they urgently need a report and I have to be the one who does it, making me feel like the earth will implode if I don't get their TPS report to them by COB today, and then once I perform a minor miracle and clear enough time to do it, they constantly come back either asking for changes (even when I gave them exactly what they asked for) or worse, claim the report is wrong or that a report looking at apples "doesn't match the metric reported" for oranges.