Zen questions

[thessalian]

Dear brand new clinical fellow:

If a letter is wanted in the office, and it's not on DMS, is there a letter?

We could be all Zen about this. We could say that the desire for the letter and the inherent belief in the letter will somehow have the letter existing in potentia, somewhere outside our Document Management System.

However, we would then be full of shit.

It's not hard. Everyone has access to DMS. If you talked to one secretary about this supposed letter and she couldn't find it, your inherent belief in the existence of a letter that you cannot give a date or even a specific signatory for does not mean that the next hapless admin goddess will somehow be able to pull it out of her arse for you. DMS is all, and if it ain't there, there is no fucking letter.

Now, be Zen, remind yourself that the journey is sometimes more important than the destination, stop looking at me like a stoned cow and deal with it. And get out of my office -- someone's stolen all the letters I printed out last week and I have to print them out all over again for my consultant to sign. Then I have to record DNAs. And then bitch about you in my Livejournal.

Thanking God I'm not your secretary,

Admin Goddess to the Consultants

Comments

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

If an idiot gets lost in the forest, and forgets to let people know, does anyone care?

Hmmm. Evil Zen....

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

Well, parts of Zen have to be evil. What is light without dark, yin without yang, intelligence without stupidity?

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the last one, but I'd be willing to give it a try... :-)

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

So would I, but I don't think it's going to happen. Unless every human being on the planet had and used the same level of intelligence at all times, someone would have to be stupid. The universe grades on a curve.

[caira.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself metaquoted.

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

So I see. I haven't written fic in ages and the quotefest is on hiatus, so you've had to find some other way to show how quotable you think I am. Nice to see the old ways never die. ^_^