Is there anyone better than me???

[susandennis]

I am not unhappy with my general level of competence. But, sometimes I just astound myself with my ability to fuck something up so completely.

When I was at Mom's at Thanksgiving she said 'Would you please order me some return address labels with my new address?' She had made such a big deal of her new address, I was kind of tired of hearing about it. The old one was 1 Bishop Gadsden Way. The new one is 2 Bishop Gadsden Way. The physical location were the deliveries are made are under the SAME ROOF. The same mail carrier delivers the mail. But. Whatever.

Anyway, of course, last Sunday's fire drill was the result of my forgetting about the whole thing.

UPS delivered the labels yesterday. Mom does not have them. No one knows where they are. I forgot the tracking number (left it at home) so I can't even call and see who signed for them.

I decided to order her real address labels - she wanted them on a roll anyway which I couldn't do on my printer or at Office Depot. I went to Superior Label Company and promptly ordered 250 labels with a nice dispense and SPELLED THE FUCKING STREET NAME WRONG!!! The nice website explained in about 42 different places why my order was final and they would not accept any changes at all. None. So I reordered. 250 more labels. The poor woman is not going to ever use 250 labels ever.

Assignment: Take a very simple task. Figure out as many ways to screw it up as possible. Execute.

I'm good.

Comments

[rivendweller.livejournal.com]

That sounds like me! When I had my CPA practice, I prepared hundreds of income tax returns every year. Without fail, I'd mess one up, and it would become the tax return that wouldn't die. I'd transpose and number. Then spell their name wrong. Then leave off an exemption. On and on. I'd wind up giving them the tax return for free, waste hours and hours on it, and lose the client in the process. Finally I resigned myself to the inevitable notion that I'd have at least one tax return like that every year.

[judith.livejournal.com]

I occasionally do tax returns for other people, just to be nice. Sometiems they'll buy me lunch or something like that in return. Your post makes clear to me that I should never ever consider this as a profession. Thank you very much. I screw up enough as it is.