Passive-aggressive ipsum
Office humour for unfinished designs, featuring vague feedback, ambitious deadlines and the final version that needs one last change.
Happy to squeeze it in, once we agree what we’re squeezing out and whether it knows yet. The button itself should take very little time, and then we just need to decide who can press it, what happens when they do, what happens when they wish they hadn’t, where the information goes, who gets an email and whether we’re allowed to keep any of it, after which we can have a lovely short meeting about whether the button should say continue or get started. We’re one checkbox away from founding a bank. We can discuss it after the launch, or discuss the launch after we add it.
I’ve accepted the invitation, largely because declining it would require a meeting to explain. The invitation says optional, but it’s been sent by someone who asks why you weren’t there, so I’m treating it as optional in the same sense that wearing trousers to the office is optional if you’re prepared for a conversation afterwards. Same time next week, unless we can find something more urgent to say nothing about.
I’ve saved the approved design somewhere safe, so when we finish making the small changes, the further small changes and the slightly larger change that undoes all the other changes, we’ll have a lovely record of the afternoon when we thought we were done. Even the undo button needs a minute. The latest feedback says to trust my judgement, which is lovely, and then lists fourteen things my judgement should do, so I’m treating it as the kind of freedom you get when a restaurant lets you choose how to pronounce the set menu. Take your time reviewing it, I’ll be over here pretending to start the next project.