I’m thinking death, but poetic justice dictates I come up with something more appropriate. Like maybe giving them a poison that will kill them in two hours and then making them stay and work with us until we’re done so they can’t go get the antidote.

And keep in mind that they’ve had a month to bring up their concerns about methodology and data sources. A month. But at 5:30 when we’re about to send it— when we’re looking for spelling errors, not for them to rethink the whole thing— they suddenly have a brainstorm about how to do it better.

What would you do?

UPDATE: The boss admitted this morning that “the client will never read it anyway”. It appears it was all a show to his bosses how committed his group was, or at least that’s what he thinks. Upper management had all gone home by 5:30 on Friday, so they weren’t around to see this great effort.