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cblj_backupOh man. Way to cause wank at work, Sam.
The story is long, involved, and boring, but essentially I had an email from Finance saying "Please fix this fuck up that has been going on for six months" so I started contacting people about fixing the fuck up.
One of the people I contacted is the Terrible Woman In HR. I included in my email, lest she flip out on me, that "the delay was caused primarily by Finance" because see: email where they said, fix the fuck up. I just wanted to know if she had copies of the information I needed to fix the fuck up.
She forwarded it to Finance, including the part about "the delay was caused primarily by Finance" because she is a class act. Finance -- specifically, the guy who fucked up -- flipped out at me and said the delay wasn't their fault, it was my fault for doing the paperwork wrong.
Man, you emailed me to fix your fuck up. Two weeks is an acceptable delay due to wrong paperwork; six months of you not responding to queries about the wrong paperwork is all on you, asshole, and by the way, the paperwork wasn't wrong.
So I responded to point out that he not only sent to me the email that indicated that the delay was on him, the paperwork wasn't wrong, and it was his job to fix this particular fuck up, and by the way I'm copying the person he now has to work with to fix this his own damn self.
I mean, I said it prettier than that, because unlike some people I'm a GOD DAMNED PROFESSIONAL. But I still got siiiiiiiilence in reply.
Possibly I've alienated both Human Resources and the people who handle our bills. I'm almost impressed with myself. On the other hand, it was only a matter of time before the speeding train of their combined idiocy came up against the steel-reinforced wall of my competence, so really I've just achieved the inevitable.
Someday I will find a way to use my powers for good.
The story is long, involved, and boring, but essentially I had an email from Finance saying "Please fix this fuck up that has been going on for six months" so I started contacting people about fixing the fuck up.
One of the people I contacted is the Terrible Woman In HR. I included in my email, lest she flip out on me, that "the delay was caused primarily by Finance" because see: email where they said, fix the fuck up. I just wanted to know if she had copies of the information I needed to fix the fuck up.
She forwarded it to Finance, including the part about "the delay was caused primarily by Finance" because she is a class act. Finance -- specifically, the guy who fucked up -- flipped out at me and said the delay wasn't their fault, it was my fault for doing the paperwork wrong.
Man, you emailed me to fix your fuck up. Two weeks is an acceptable delay due to wrong paperwork; six months of you not responding to queries about the wrong paperwork is all on you, asshole, and by the way, the paperwork wasn't wrong.
So I responded to point out that he not only sent to me the email that indicated that the delay was on him, the paperwork wasn't wrong, and it was his job to fix this particular fuck up, and by the way I'm copying the person he now has to work with to fix this his own damn self.
I mean, I said it prettier than that, because unlike some people I'm a GOD DAMNED PROFESSIONAL. But I still got siiiiiiiilence in reply.
Possibly I've alienated both Human Resources and the people who handle our bills. I'm almost impressed with myself. On the other hand, it was only a matter of time before the speeding train of their combined idiocy came up against the steel-reinforced wall of my competence, so really I've just achieved the inevitable.
Someday I will find a way to use my powers for good.
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Date: 2012-05-30 10:58 pm (UTC)I think you need a Hollow Crown (http://youtu.be/M4N9-4vhYVU) trailer. It has made my spectacularly crappy week-so-far SO much more bearable, I cannot even begin to calculate. (Then again, I am not in Finance.)
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Date: 2012-06-03 04:14 pm (UTC)When is this airing, do you know? I can't seem to find that info on the website.
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Date: 2012-06-08 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-31 03:12 pm (UTC)It's a joke from Office Space. It's pretty much the typical useless report that gets changed every quarter or so. And, once you forget it, fifty people walk by your desk to tell you about how you forgot it. (really, Sam. You should watch Office Space. I feel like an office ninja such as you would enjoy it more than most.)
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Date: 2012-05-31 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-31 12:11 am (UTC)Ugh. I daresay in this, you already HAVE used your powers for good. Better than some poor duckling tripping in this mess inadvertently then coming to your desk whimpering over it.
Also, semi-related, I have people that have driven me nuts personally or professionally, and they get the great honor of having an addendum line in my overlong address book of "Failed Human". Because I am keeping track of that shiz.
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Date: 2012-05-31 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-31 02:30 am (UTC)I think we both deserve ice cream! Ice cream for competence! You know, maybe if they gave out ice cream for competence people would aspire to more of it.
At least you have Awkward Coworker in your Justice League :(
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Date: 2012-05-31 06:46 am (UTC)I'm proud of you for maintaining your professional composure Sam!
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Date: 2012-05-31 01:33 pm (UTC)I don't know, Sam, perhaps this WAS a way to use your powers for good. Wait and see if either Terrible Woman in HR and/or Guy in Finance gets fired...
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Date: 2012-05-31 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-31 04:53 pm (UTC)It's a good way to tell people go f*k yourself. I'm too cool for you.
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Date: 2012-06-01 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-31 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-01 01:34 am (UTC)I'm a retired seamstress.... If you send the measurements I will gladly make your Super Competent Office Guy suit for you. (The only tricky part would be making the cape fit under casual Fridays shirts... but we'll figure that one out when we get to it.)
Gold Star to you!
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Date: 2012-06-01 02:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-01 02:42 am (UTC)Superheroes can illustrate everything.
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Date: 2012-06-01 02:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-01 11:09 pm (UTC)(In other words, this sort of thing is going to happen if you have to work with HR.)