Rogue Staffing

Tuesday: 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.

Last night at about 3:30 in the morning I got an email while I was in bed that I was staffed on a project. It was a rogue staff, which means, I am not really on the deal or will be on the deal but they need me to get some work done.

Immediately when I got in I started working on it and was able to complete the assignment to format a comps spreadsheet to only show certain comps and to paste it into a powerpoint "rider" (a rider is a couple of slides removed from the main presentation to edit so you don't screw up the main presentation) before the AS could even bring me up to speed.

I get an email 2 seconds after I send my result asking me to come by his office so he can show me what to do. I went to his office and he had pulled up my work and was like, "So you're done? Is everything right?" I said yes I was done, and was awaiting his suggestions. He gave me a couple suggestions. I finished it up. What was kind of funny is that the AS was also rogue staffed, so he wasn't quite up to speed. Throughout the day we would get emails from the VP heading the project and few minutes later I would get emails from the AS, saying, "Do you want me to take care of this?" And I would reply, "Its already taken care of." In fact the last email the AS sent was, "Could you send the books to productions?" I replied, "Already printed, flipped and sitting on the VPs chair." I think the AS was happy, and I was too because I felt like I didn't waste any time trying to improve on the suggestions in my mid review--be more efficent.

Besides those little jobs throughout the day, I also worked on this teaser. I think I mentioned that in a previous post, but we are trying to wrap this part of Real Deal up. Work has been slow because the AS who is running Real Deal has been slammed with other deals. The week itself looks pretty slow which will give me a chance to catch up on these 20 comps I have to spread by had before August 1.