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You know it's not going to be a particularly good day when you meet with a stakeholder, reach an agreement as to the scope of the work to be done by all three of the participants in the meeting, and walk the ninety seconds back to your desk only to find that the agreed-upon scope has been thrown by the wayside and what's now expected is easily three to five times the effort required. What's worse is even after going that extra distance in the interest of getting something resolved once and for all to have that same requestor ask for even more.

Finally, after spending the better part of four and a half hours of work to not only deliver the ten-minute fix agreed upon as the initial scope, i ended up referring him to the person in charge of the master project schedule because i had work of my own to do and was drifting beyond the limits of my range as both software developer and graphic designer, and was approximately four hours and fifteen minutes beyond the limits of my patience. Today was one of those days where personal defenestration sounded like a good course of action, and mere self control was keeping me from rampaging in the halls, yelling, Samuel L. Jackson style, "Agreements, motherf*cker. Do you keep them?" and slashing at people with a hockey stick.