Nothing like a fire drill proposal going into a holiday weekend. I wonder how long this sat in the persons email box before he decided to get people to work on it the day before it is due?

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Do you not just tell people you have plans for the holiday weekend? Because I would, even if I planned to do nothing at all.

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Years ago I was on the account for our largest client and they had a 2 week turnaround policy for RFPs, yet our partner would consistently not turn the RFP over to us till 3-4 days before the due date.

Drove me absolutely bonkers!

How about a fire drill transaction kicking off 😂

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