At a meeting last week, someone said, “This should be easy,” which is something people only say when it is absolutely not easy. It was about a task that sounded simple enough at first, so nobody questioned it.
Then we actually opened it.
It immediately became clear that this was not easy. There were steps inside of steps, and every time you completed one thing, it created two more things that also needed to be done. No one wanted to say anything, though, because we had already agreed it was easy. So we all just kind of nodded and acted like we understood what was happening. Someone even said, “Yeah, this is straightforward,” which I think made it worse because now we were all committed to the idea.
At some point, someone asked a question that revealed they were completely lost, but they phrased it in a way that sounded like they understood, so it didn’t actually help. We kept going like that for a while, just pretending we were making progress. Eventually, we finished something. I’m not sure what, but it looked complete enough that everyone agreed we were done. Later, someone said, “That wasn’t too bad,” and everyone nodded again.
I still don’t know what we did.
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