It is, I guess, all my fault that I have been so late in completing the assignment for one of my university courses. To my defense, the assignment is a phone survey, questioning at least two properties on whether they get sponsored by anybody, the amount of sponsorship, etc. And I have always hated to talk to people on the phone, and have never been good at administering surveys, whether on the phone or face to face. The few attempts I made at getting the two responses to the survey which are the minimum to turn in have been met with "the person who deals with sponsorship is away and will only come back in July"s, "no, we have no time to take part in a survey"s, and other such refusals.
So this morning, I went to the professor (who is also the founder and owner of the company I'm having my internship in), and told him I still hadn't managed to get any answer to the survey, and I was fully aware that everything needed to be turned in tomorrow, and did I really have to do it? Could I not do something else instead?
No, he said, the two survey responses are required, but you still have some more time, I haven't even started grading the exam papers, and I'm sure Mauro or Emma will be glad to help you.
Mauro and Emma being two coworkers, of course. They just graduated from university last year, and they were very glad to help me, since I have helped them several times since I started working here.
So I sat together with Mauro this afternoon, and collected phone numbers for several prospective interviewees, and he made phonecalls for me and we have a survey response already and are waiting for it to be 5pm so we can call back the people who said please call back later, when the marketing director will be in. And we laughed together with Emma at a badly worded question in the survey, result of a copypaste gone awry and somebody not paying attention, which Mauro just barely avoided reading over the phone to the interviewee. Hehe.