Updated "greek task list":
**orphean task:** when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.
**daedalean task:** when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.
**medusan task:** when your project becomes so horrifying that everyone involved freezes in place rather than deal with it.
**tantaline task:** when success is right there, but bureaucracy or budget cuts keep snatching it away at the last moment, forever.
**pandoran task:** when fixing one small issue unleashes a thousand new ones, but hey — at least there’s still hope somewhere in the ticket backlog.
**odyssean task:** when the assignment technically has an end, but it’s buried under so many side quests that you forget what the original goal was.
**narcissian task:** when the entire effort is about maintaining appearances rather than achieving anything of substance.
**promethean task:** when you give people a powerful new tool that could transform their work — and are punished eternally for doing so.
**orestian task:** when the mess you’re cleaning up is the direct result of the last cleanup you performed.
**thesean task:** when the only way to finish is to disassemble everything piece by piece — until you’re no longer sure if what’s left is the same project you started.
**achillean task:** when your work is flawless except for that one fatal oversight that will, inevitably, destroy you.
**penelopean task:** when you diligently undo by night what you accomplish by day, just to keep the stakeholders pacified.
**midasean task:** when everything you touch turns into paperwork, compliance documents, or gold-plated nonsense nobody actually needs.
**gordian task:** not intended to be actually done, but violence is the answer.
