Spouting

[susandennis]

Spouting is a microburst rant.

Last week Hank The Fuckchop sent me a note asking for my deadline for changes to the list for a mailing this week. I responded that I understood his need to have as much time as possible to ensure accuracy so that if I had the list when I came in on Monday, I could make the changes. I even pointed out that my 'come in on Monday' time was 5:30 a.m. and I noted that delaying the list this long would leave me no wiggle room for problems but I was willing to take that chance.

I heard nothing.

This morning I sent a note to him and the other person on the project saying that since I had no changes, I assumed that they were happy with what they had already given me.

I get a note back from the other person (who had been copied on all of the above info all along) saying that 'oh yes, we have lots of changes - I'll be getting them to you this morning.'

I marched back to his desk and asked when. He said when do you need them. I said 3 hours ago. He said 'you aren't mailing them out until tomorrow are you?' I said 'please, can you just tell me when you will have the list ready?' Finally he said 9;30.

Our office manager said last week that since most everyone believes that the work she and I do falls under the category of 'Any idiot could do it' - we need to get t-shirts that say 'we ARE the idiots who do it.