Oh for God’s sake !

I mean… What the fuck? Seriously.

Back when I was put on the job I was given clear goals and deadlines. Well, supposedly clear. I analysed studies of all the figures from the previous years stats, I prepared my plans. I was set and ready, resources were planned, it was going to be awesome. Super well organised and tracked and managed and everything. We were going to have the best results ever. The deadline was always going to be a bit tight but with good planning we’d not only be able to manage but even to perform well. And then bam! There is comes, in your face.

Three month disappear from your schedule and what used to be a long-term concern suddenly becomes super high priority, very urgent, the most important and only thing everyone should care about. Morons as we are, caring about the job so much, we obediently went along. Admittedly moaning in our corner but never openly, not questioning any decision. It didn’t even occur to us. Damn should we have banged our fists on the table then. Instead we just worked twice as hard, the whole lot of us and every other team around as well. We were all on the same boat, and somehow it made it easier. Tell you what? I think we even kinda enjoyed it for a while. Against all odds, it was going to be alright, we were managing. We were getting that sense of pride and achievement. We were sticking together, we could trust and count and rely on eachother. Yeah, like a bunch of cheerful cretins.

We eventually submitted our projects, they all got signed off, everyone patted eachother’s back. A couple of week later, just when we started to relax a bit, ready to recover at last, have a bit of a rest it just bloody snowed and froze! We all had bloomed! OK you can say it’s kinda fair enough for the hellebores or the winter jasmine somehow, even for the bergenia maybe. But there was a flipping rose out there! It’s frozen to death now, literally so. I can’t believe it’s just dead and nobody care. Go have fun with your snowmen bullshit. Go complain about oh, ‘how hard was it to walk in my heels on that slippery pavement this morning’? There’s some goddamn corpses here, hello.

They told us spring was gonna be early, we had to start blooming now, no choice. Look at that, twelve degrees in December, it can’t go unflowered, that’d be ridiculous. We were so proud of our pre spring, unexpected yet so successful. I promise there was some joy and happiness in the air, and it was thanks to us all. We were giving hope to people, every new petal was pushing the spleen further away. We were doing so well, and so much better than the guys over the channel. We laughed at them then, some old rivalry just never fully gets resolved. Boy must they be laughing now. Well, I guess they don’t actually. Who could laugh at such a carnage? I wouldn’t wish that situation even to my worst enemy. It is just too cruel.