Employee delivered project on time – colleagues are worried

An employee at a mid-sized company in Reykjavík delivered a project ahead of its deadline this week without anyone having to chase him. The incident has caused considerable unease in the workplace.

The project, due on Friday, was delivered on Thursday at 15:40.

“At first we thought it was an old file,” says a department head. “Then we opened it and it was... finished. With a table of contents.”

Colleagues are concerned. “He never once said ‘þetta reddast’,” says one, quoting the national motto, which roughly means it'll all work out. “Not once. I've worked with him for six years and I didn't know that was possible.”

The HR manager has called him in for a chat, “just to check everything's all right at home”.

It later emerged that the man had recently attended a time-management course. The course has now been discontinued.

Management has called a meeting on how to prevent this from happening again. The meeting has been postponed three times.