Helping others at your own expense

He stood behind me, hands folded across his chest, and using his jaws to point at the drawing he wants me to take a look at.

 

For some reasons, he forgot that this work is supposed to be his, I am doing it this extra work for the team, not for him. I wish I can be selfish enough to leave perfectly on the dot as how I should be, especially when I had already completed my share of work.

 

But I look at my colleagues and watch them look at me in despair. They know that they cannot finish their work even if they spend the next 5 hours struggling with it, and if I would be so nice as to stay and do the work with them, there is a chance that we can all leave within 2 hours.

 

Situations like that occur all the time.

 

Now it has gone from bad to really bad.

 

Multiply the workload by a few more folds and try to imagine the number of hours we need to inject into the project. Now it is more of a 15 hours and 6 hours scenarios, and we work till midnight every other day.

 

And they get to sleep after they reached home! Me? I pored over my notes and try to write my mini-thesis for school, then fall asleep in the chair before Win XP even manage to starts up totally.