Friday, March 25, 2011

Reason #19

You call me to say you can't find a form I typed for you.

I ask if you've looked under the client file on the server.  You say you did but you couln't find it.  You say the one on the server is the one you did, not the one I did.  I can tell you're trying to get me off the phone so you can go back to whatever it is you do when you're not annoying the hell out of me, but I keep you on the phone while I check the server.

I try to get you to clarify what you mean by what you did versus what I did because I don't recall you doing anything.  The only form that should exist is the form I typed.  And it's on the server.  Which is where I find it.  You "clarify" that you had a blank form on the server and I typed a form on the server - you say you can't find the typed form.

"It's on the server," I tell you, "under 'DOCS.'"  Right where it is supposed to be, right where it would be if you actually LOOKED.

"Oh" you say because what else is there to say when your assistant has subtley pointed out that you're a moron.  "But it's a blank form!" You proclaim, perhaps to save face.

"No, it's not," I reply because it is, in fact, not a blank form.

"Oh."

How am I not an alcoholic yet, working for you?

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