You Snooze, You Lose, Your Job

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6:30AM

• Practice presentation one more time
  
• Regenerate analysis based on latest data transmission, troubleshoot if necessary.
  
• Lunch with the client.
  
• Write performance review and meet with manager.
  
• Have to account for traffic.
  

snooze

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6:45 AM

• Presentation won’t take but five minutes to go through.
  
• There haven’t been any issues with data transmissions for the past five weeks.
  
• Lunch with the client.
  
• Write performance review and meet with manager.
  
• I’ll take the backroads to work today.
  

snooze

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7:00 AM

• I have that presentation memorized.
  
• Press a button, the analysis is done. Troubleshooting, puh-leez.
  
• Does the client really need me for lunch?
  
• I can write my performance review blindfolded.
  
• People probably took a 3-day weekend, no traffic.
  

snooze

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7:15 AM

• Do they really need me for the presentation?
  
• I can send that analysis on Monday.
  
• Client always wants to eat at Panera. Hate. That. Place.
  
• My performance review is already written. All in my head.
  
• I’ll work from home in the morning.
  

snooze

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7:30 AM

• That presentation is a joke. No one gives a shit. It’s Friday.
  
• I can send last week’s analysis as this week’s analysis, by the time they review it, I’ll say it was a mistake and have this week’s analysis done.
  
• Panera? F*ck Panera.
  
• I’ll recite my performance review to my manager.
  
• As long as I log-in by 9AM.
  

snooze

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7:45 AM

• My wife makes decent money.
  
• Do both of us really need to work?
  
• I can stay at home, take care of the kids, clean the house. I’m a good father damn-it.
  
• How many times can I hit snooze?