Are You Up?

I was relaxing on Friday evening after an intense twelve-hour workday. I had spent the day finalizing code changes that need to be deployed before the annual technology change freeze. These are critical deliverables with an unmovable deadline, so the stress level was high.

I was working on some creative projects and trying to wind down when, just after midnight, I noticed a message pop up on my phone.

“Daniel are you up?”

I just about fell off of my chair. “Who the heck sent this?”

It turns out that it was was one of my colleagues in India looking for help with some data that hadn’t arrived on time. I’m going to have to have a talk with him about how to phrase late-night requests for technical assistance.