Listening

PM is my colleague from Chennai and works with me currently. I've been interacting with him for 3 years now but have never seen him. He's smart but erratic and his previous boss used to say that his day starts at 9 in the night. In my project, he started off like that but the last couple of weeks have been hectic for both of us and I don't know if he sleeps at all. He's a pleasant chap to interact with but yesterday when I requested him for something he said, "don't request, just order and it'll be done"!! I knew he was not being sarcastic so it sounded very pathetic coming from a 30-year old young man. On top of that he signed off saying he had some personal problems because of which he was not able to concentrate on work. I'm uneasy now thinking of  how SM used to be in his last days and I'm going to have a word or two with PM today.