If you want to see my lose my ish, drop urgent deadlines into my workflow. I will pay triple to pull the plug every damn time. That's probably not a great way to conduct business but here I am, a flawed subject.
I do this thing where I forecast a month out, a quarter out, a year out. I know what my deadlines are. And then people will pop up with some nonsense about how you need to scan these EIGHT THINGS RIGHT NOW OR A CAT DIES and I will just get up and walk out before I entertain it.
Drives me up a wall.
And if I am PAYING you and you have urgent deadlines? You're on the fast train outta here. Literally the whole point of sending you money is for nothing to ever be urgent.
Anyway this is a subtweet of myself because I just cost myself money because I am not going to stop what I am focusing on to fill out some damn forms. I may be hustling backwards but I don't care.

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