Buggy First Week on the Job
Second day on the job– a developer and I have to deliver some difficult news.
We get them on the phone:
Me: “Hi– I’m afraid that I’ve got an issue to report and some ways that we want to address it.”
Client: OK (gulp!)
Me: Unfortunately while reviewing your HTML, we discovered some inconsistencies…– uh— uh, (at this moment I see a 3 inch cockroach crawling up my leg. I jump up, I do NOT scream and I swipe at the f*cker.)
Me: There’s literally a huge bug crawling up my leg and I’m trying to get it off. Uh, hold that thought. <My colleague and I yelp> (I try two and three times to get this thing off of my leg. Finally, fourth swipe and it gets on the floor.)
My colleague: (smacks with her notebook- several times, which does nothing to the roach)
Me: (take off shoe- smackdown with heel- dead. Finally. IT guy comes in room after hearing screams. He (thank God) removes the body and our call resumes with client feeling really sorry for me at this point.
HR follows up on any residual trauma and pest control comes the end of the week.
I’m digging the gig but there were definitely some bugs at first. Crazy!
