What's the hardest decision you've had to make at work?

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I hear you takeapart, what an excellent description of what it means to you.

It is handy to keep some T-Cut and touch up paint in the boot or even run around in a Lada while the Porsche is in the bodyshop.

The hardest decision I've had to make at my work was in relation to a really bad incident that happened. It's a long story.

I had been working extremely hard at an extra project that I had offered to supervise and everyone had been telling me I was doing really good work with it and all the supervisors had given me a green light to launch it. Then one morning I came to work and had barely even sat down in my seat when one of the managers (not my own supervisor, but the boss of another department) started screaming a lot at me out of the blue and the executive director came and said a few words to back him up too. I got really overwhelmed and didn't know what was going on and why they were freaking out like that.

I found out later that they were so upset because they had forgotten about the project and the time it was launched turned out to be very inconvenient. The night before they had decided to lay off some employees and some of the employees that had been assigned to participate in this project were actually going to receive their resignation letter the day after. So they were screaming at me for something I neither had knowledge nor control of. They had both attended a meeting a few days earlier where the project plan was thoroughly explained to them and they had both agreed on launching it and there they were screaming at me for not keeping them informed enough, when it was really the other way around.

I had a really bad meltdown and was very angry and confused by their behavior. I really wanted to go in there, scream back at them and give them my resignation while I was at it and then leave that place permanently, but the economic crisis was getting worse and there were literally no jobs out there, so I knew I had to try to stay even though they had crossed all boundaries and should not get away with behaving that way towards me. So I had to try to suck it up and stay there against my will, only to find out the following day that the company was going to lay me off too. I was really disappointed with having decided to not quit myself the day before like I had really wanted to.

I work at Subway, so there isn't any hard decisions. The hardest would be what kind of sub I feel like eating that day.