Today I had a pop status meeting with the Riddler. I love it when he does this. It’s great to be interrupted in the middle of something urgent with an order to lay out my entire workload and plan for the next week on five seconds notice.

The highlight of the meeting was the very end - after detailing the projects I’ve got going right now (the count is around 10 or 12 at the moment), El Riddler told me that I had missed the most urgent thing to be finished this week…a major presentation to a big client which could secure us a large amount of cash. He expressed disbelief that I hadn’t even mentioned it, given that we had been working on it for a week and it was needed for Friday.

Except.

We had never talked about this before. I had never heard of any of the documents he needed, or the client in question or the product we were supposed to be proposing to them.

When I asked for more details, the Riddler began looking for his notes. He couldn’t find them. He claimed that I had them. I told him I didn’t. I asked him who the client was. He wasn’t sure. I asked what documents he needed. He didn’t know. I asked what we were proposing to them. He hadn’t decided.

A sledgehammer of silence descended. The Riddler tapped angrily on his pad of paper and glared at his pen. The conversation turned to my “lack of projects to work on”. I reiterated the conversation WE HAD JUST HAD to re-explain that I actually have too much to do right now.

The meeting finished when I asked him about the status of four different documents he was supposed to have approved by the end of the previous week to move forward our current major initiative. He muttered something about “having too much to review” and we parted ways.

Ah, feel the love.