Defeated

This is my very last message to my colleague just now when he fails to meet the deadline again: “Hope you understand where I am coming from. I need to answer to both the client and boss. After the review, I will need you to put in extra efforts to finish up the application. We will discuss the outstanding issues tomorrow after the review; just try to show as much as you could for the presentation tomorrow.”

I had long lost my patience over him, yet I had to pretend to be nice. And when I am nice, it doesn’t mean I am not serious about the things that I had said. I feel defeated.