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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

What's worse than having superiors with unrealistic expectations about how employees can achieve the goals the superiors want to bring about?

Having co-employees who are in the same boat as you being expected to perform perfectly, but only enough to cover their own behinds and not look at the big picture that everyone's success is their success too. These are the people who already have an eye out for determining where their responsibility ends and someone else's begins, and always have ready made excuses for their predicted failures (like Ephraim).

It's compounded by the fact that the "boss" just happens to be in the hospital taking care of her sick child, and thus has to run the show by text message and calls, instead of assigning someone else to lead the entire operation of preparation.

I'm talking, of course, about the presentations for the investiture tomorrow.

It's bad enough that when you say yes to the superior, they have this belief that you'll drop everything to help them, instead of just on your free time, what with classes ongoing and all.

I didn't even know the school had a resident "graphic artist" whose job is just to come up with printouts of photographs, slide and video presentations for these grand events.

And in her off hours, she comes up with fish eye view pictures of the campus and its buildings which, even though looks awesome in the final product, will leave any potential visitors disappointed when they arrive and see it's not as it was depicted.

There's even some confusion about who's supposed to pay for the materials to be used for the presentations. Are the faculty volunteers supposed to shell out from their own pockets first?

Then there will just be a long reimbursement process afterwards?

That is, if it is even refunded in the first place, if someone upstairs doesn't decide it wasn't worth it for the event to have that expense after all. Then the person who risked money out of his own wallet to make the school look good, for nothing.

Session 1721 could just let the events unfold using whatever meager funds the school gives, then blame it all on them if it fails. Class dismissed.