Today’s post over at Chrisblogging.com got me thinking.

Two things:

1) What happened to peoples’ work ethic?

2) Most excuses are pathetic.

Sure…there’s always the dying relative or serious health problems. I’m not a complete unsympathetic a-hole.

But the jerks that use excuses left and right…well, they kind of ruin even the legitimate excuses for the rest of us.

Think about it. When a vendor or someone you work with gives you an excuse, do you question it? Maybe not out loud, to their face. But in your head. You’re thinking, “Yeah, right. He/She is totally bs-ing me.”

I had a headache today. I’m talking monster headache. The ”I wanna curl up in a little ball and cry like a baby” headache. I told myself to take a nap and sleep it off. Even if it was for a half hour.

But I had a deadline. And this time, it was for myself, my own project. I’ve never missed a deadline for a client, but I’m more lenient with my own stuff. But today, I treated my project as if I was an ultra-important client (gotta get my pats on the back somehow) and I cranked it out.

I didn’t cry like a baby. I didn’t take a nap. I popped a couple Tylenol and kept on working.

It’s time people start sucking it up and getting back to good old fashioned work.

No more excuses. Unless they’re the legitimate kind.