A mea culpa

[sawyl]

Feeling oppressed by the urgent OS upgrade I've been working on, I was distinctly snippy with one of my colleagues this morning. Unprofessionally, I ran out of patience after being interrupted for the hundreth time with a trivial query that could easy have been solved with a bit of independent thought — it's my curse that people find it easier to outsource their thinking to me rather than doing it themselves — especially after they excused themselves from thinking by saying that they didn't have time — because, of course, I have nothing but time on my hands, don't I? So I snapped back,

I can't believe you're asking me this now! You've had six months to work on it and suddenly you want me to drop everything and sort it out! If you can't get it done before you go away, just tell me what you want done and I'll do it!

I apologised almost as soon as I'd had a chance to take a deep breath, but still. I shouldn't have done it and wouldn't have done it had I not been in the middle of a complicated and stressful bit of work that absolutely has to be finished and working by the end of the week.