Working with Chicken Little

I work with Chicken Little. Do you? You know the one - "The Sky Is Falling" Chicken Little (idiom indicating a hysterical or mistaken belief that disaster is imminent). Anyway, this particular individual called me today in a panic over a recent email we had received from one of our customers. The email is an action item list that came out of a technical meeting we had with them this week. Yes the list is long and we have very little time to respond but it isn't impossible and definitely not disastrous in any way! Yet this individual insisted that the entire Sales and Engineering teams re-arrange their schedules tomorrow in order to accommodate a meeting to review the said email/checklist. The funny thing is that our main engineer is the one who attended the meeting and I am sure as the sun he is working on it as I am blogging this notion.

I have lost count as to how many times this scenario has occurred and yet we manage to get everything done with plenty of time to spare despite this individual. Go figure!