I had a bit of a slow-moving meltdown last week over ordering pizza for 30+ people for our team retreat. I ran into a rude person at the first place I called and it was downhill from there.
The order was eventually placed a solid 2 days before the retreat. I breathed a sigh of relief. Then they ended up being almost 30 minutes late, delivering lukewarm pizza. In summary: my fears were realized. Although, we did eventually get pizza, so I guess it could have been worse.
I'm ostensibly a capable, adult person, so how did I get beaten by such a trivial task?
I'm not sure.
But the one thing I didn't do was keep my feelings bottled up. In this case, all that venting was probably not the best coping mechanism, so that's a lesson learned. The other lesson learned is I need to be better about delegating things like this when appropriate. I organized agenda development, a location, a moderator, communications to the team, the decision around remote attendees, etc. in other words: I had plenty to do. If I had asked a colleague (who I knew had done this before) to take this task off my hands, everyone would have been better off.
Team-work for the win.
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