I bank on your incompetence
Here at the office, we prepare this thing every week. For sake of argument, we’ll call this thing the WENIS. People send me info and I compile the info then send the WENIS to a very important person, who we’ll call The Big Cheese. One particular person (who we’ll call Regularly Incompetent Person) always gets their WENIS wrong. Actual conversation about the WENIS:
Regularly Incompetent Person: I need you to reject the info I sent for the WENIS.
Me: I already did.
Regularly Incompetent Person: [baffled] You did?
Me: Yes.
Regularly Incompetent Person: Why?
Me: Because it’s always wrong and you always call to tell me you need to resubmit it. Rejecting it the first time saves me the time I would ordinarily spend 1) deleting your mistake and 2) re-submitting the correction.
Regularly Incompetent Person: Oh, uhm, well … err… it’s wrong and I need to resubmit it.
Me: I told you.
Regularly Incompetent Person: Smart ass.
So, I plan my day around others’ incompetence. It’s a good skill, saves you time.
August 22nd, 2006 at 9:22 am
I bet that having to submit something called “the WENIS” really makes you mind your Ps and Qs.
August 22nd, 2006 at 5:55 pm
Dude – I’m not kidding here – one of my co-workers did that and two weeks later he was sitting in HR being accused of “harassing” his co-worker. She filed a complaint because he rejected her work before she came by to tell him it needed to be changed.
The entire experience was infuriating. He had two witnesses that he did not harass her.
Yet the incident remains in his record and he was “requested to take an anger management course”.
It’s a messed-up time we live in.
August 22nd, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Yeah, but I’m the boss. And HR’s boss.