Vice Versa

Whenever I get an "urgent" request from someone for reporting information that they need, I take it seriously. I also hope that if I ever had a request for them they would take the initiative to find me an answer or at least respond in a timely manner. However, it seems more often than not people are always in rush when it comes to their own issues and when someone else asks a favor of them suddenly everything else becomes more important. I think the standard should be that I do something ASAP if its important and, vice versa, they should (at least try) do the same. This is especially true when I take a lot of time to finish a complex assignment for someone; get it to them ahead of schedule (at my own priorities demise); only to find out that they aren't in the office for the next few days. How could this have been that important if they aren't around to get my email anyway?

Of course, that same person inevitably comes back and immediately has corrections or changes they want done... and those too have be urgent and immediate. Its amazing!

I can't wait until we roll out the new reporting tool for gXRS. This will hopefully alleviate some of my frustrations (but certainly not all of them).