A participant in a meeting I was running recently picked up a message during a break. She looked excited, and turned to her friend: “We’ve got an extension – until first thing on Monday”.
The slightly scary thing was that this was at 10.30 on the Friday morning. Oh well: there goes the weekend…
The sad thing is that it’s rather presumed by many salespeople that we proposal folks will merrily work 24/7 to get their documents out of the door. And the sadder thing, perhaps, is that many of us do.