Business Poem #11 - Payal Problems

Paypal - aarrghh!

I have been one of millions of victims of the recent multiday outage of Paypal. I just launched my boss's day product, which has a short window of opportunity. The very same window, it turns out so far, as the Paypal outage. Paypal processes my credit card orders - in theory.

We don't realize how important to our businesses our online vendors are until they fail - or I didn't. These past days have tested my patience, of which I generally have little.

To deal with some of the stress and feelings of helplessness, I wrote a couple business poems about the whole Paypal incident. How does this relate to management? When stuff like this happens, it's crunch time and nothing else matters - same for small businesses and big companies. We all need a way to get productive and make the most of the situation.

Silent Cash Register

The anguish is sharp and unmatched

And the stress could crush an elephant

I feel like my spirit has been snatched

By my credit card merchant

Never ready to have intricate planning foiled

Creations tossed aside, blocked and invalidated

It just can´t be, how could my work be so easily spoiled

My cash register is silent when it should be flooded

Paypal, how could you have let this happen

So many relied on your steadfastness and trusted you

Please tell me this mess you will straighten

I need to take orders now, today, without further adieu

Rescue

Try voodoo

Hire a guru

Work past curfew

Do what you have to

We need a rescue