Powering on

I walked into my office on a Friday morning expecting just a lazy day of sitting on the bench.

Instead I was called into the senior partner's office 2 mins into my breakfast.

Kevin we need you to head down to a client's side, your team leader's project has gone south and we need you to go down and see what you can do to fix it.

Oh wow, I had only just met my team leader the day before, a tired old timer who had been doing what we did for about 27 years with IBM. If he stuffed up a project what could I possibly do?

Who's the customer I asked?

They told me ... it was one of the world's biggest consulting firms and the secondary client was a multinational.

Could I be any more out of my depth?

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20 mins later I'm walking through the doors of one of those high flying offices, shaking hands and acting all consultant like.

I cool access the situation all the while sweating inside my collar. They tell me you're an expert on steering committee documentation nope, I've never even heard of a steering committee before this.

Sure, I heard myself say, I'll go dig up some situational information and I"ll get right on it.

Then I walked in to say hi to my colleagues for the next few days, or were they my staff?

3 days on and I'm finally gaining ground on the work.

I might make it through this after all...