epic fail

[freckles_and_doubt]

Things Not To Do When Planning Orientation Events Involving Over A Thousand Students: get the residence opening date wrong. Now 400 of them arrive before there's anywhere for them to stay. The thought of how many flight re-bookings this is going to entail makes me feel physically ill.

Even worse, I have absolutely no-one to blame except myself.

If you need me, I'll be in that corner. The one with the ritual suicide.

Comments

[wolverine-nun.livejournal.com]

Oh no! :( :(

[origamitiger.livejournal.com]

opps!

[(Anonymous)]

Holy crap.

Sending emergency Earl Grey.

scroob

[(Anonymous)]

Eep! Sending emergency katana...
(Joke! Joke! How about some chocolate instead? Lots of it?)

everymoment

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. *thinks*

I could make a seriously lateral stab at ritual suicide with a chocolate katana. Death by sugar overload. Happy death.

[tngr-spacecadet.livejournal.com]

We can supply an emergency dose of Doctor Who, a teeny tiny teaser, but still.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

ooh! Actually, I have to get Torchwood back from you anyway, jo&stv have Season 2 and I need a refresher... When are youse guys around this weekend?

[bumpycat.livejournal.com]

ZOMG! Just think of it as a test of your evil overlord powers. Today, inconvenience; tomorrow, world domination!!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

actually, have controlled situation already, reworked the plan, contacted stakeholders...

[bumpycat.livejournal.com]

못!

"This was simply a demonstration of my powers, president. Should you annoy me, I will go ... further."

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, sounds like pretty impressive damage control. Go you!

scroob

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

I kinda had to. It was an epic screw-up, and my first in this job, and I was hitherto basking in the sense of achievement and want that back, dammit. Faced with ritual suicide or restoring my own self-image as Effective, TM, I wouldn't really want a chocolate katana.

[mwotn.livejournal.com]

Bloody hells... good luck at getting it all sorted out!

Hope it's relatively quick and painless, that's the sort-out, not the ritual suicide.

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

Oh grief. You have my empathies. When in the nuzzlepaper I read about some official making some horrendous cock-up, I will sometimes get angry about it, but I also truly feel for said official. We're all at home to Mister Cock-up from time to time, and just occasionally he's a big 'un.

You, on the other hand, appear to have conquered in adversity. Go you!

Chocolate katanas are for eating, not for stabbing.

contacted stakeholders

Hopefully those are not for stabbing, either.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Stakeholders are not for stabbing, but I might be for stabbing on the grounds of degenerating into touchyfeely managementspeak. Sigh. I need to leave this admin job, it's slowly but surely turning me into an administrator. Although clearly some inefficient bits of me are resisting.

[egadfly.livejournal.com]

Indeed you must shield your mind against such perniciousness. Though you can take comfort that, no matter how bad it gets, you would still at the very least be an Administratrix.

[bronchitikat.livejournal.com]

Oh Dear.

Congratulations on the Damage Control Exercise.

World Domination next, or Death by Chocolate Cake?