Word of the Day: Spaztastic

[thessalian]

Somebody shoot me. Oh, no, wait; somebody shoot him.

'Him', in this instance, is our chief editor. Total spaz. Spaz! Every time I turn around he's telling me about something that hasn't got done and then it turns out that it's because he screwed something up!

Him: (e-mail reads) "Mail this to people, please?"
E-mail: *is devoid of attachments*
Me: (e-mail reply) I don't think the attachment went through.
Him: *is in India*
Me: ...Shit.
Him: (three weeks later) Sorry; sorry.

Me: This document is missing bits.
Him: No it isn't.
Me: ...
Him: (a month later) Why didn't you do X, Y or Z?
Me: (penny drops) Ah. That would be the bits that were missing in your document. *pulls up document* The bits here, here and here?
Him: Ah. Well, my copy looks different and is on [different] subdirectory. I must have saved wrong. You didn't make it very clear.
Me: I told you that decisions were missing.
Him: Ah. Sorry. Right, so I'll ... make sure you get those, then. Next time this happens...
Me: (internal whimper) Next time?)
Him: ...send the document to me so that I understand what you mean.
Me: (internal growl) Must ... not ... kill ... man ... who ... ensures ... paycheque...

Him: Have we heard anything on the e-mail to Woman We Contact All The Time?
Me: *confused* Noooo...
Him: Ring her, please; we're waiting on an editorial. We are on a deadline here.
Me: *rings WWCATT*
WWCATT: *is clueless about editorial*
Me: *has bad feeling; checks sent file*
Sent File: *shows no record of recent message to WWCATT re editorial*
Me: *checks stupid 'missing bits' document on other subdirectory against one on mine*
My subdirectory: *no record of wanting e-mail sent to WWCATT*
Other subdirectory: "Please e-mail WWACTT about editorial, text below."
Me: Arrrrrgh.

Him: Have we heard anything from A, B and C?
Me: A's in, we're waiting on the okay from Hilary. B and C aren't in yet.
Him: Okay ... what about D?
Me: You rejected that paper two months ago.
Him: Did I?
Me: *shows documentary evidence*
Him: Ah. Well. How about E, F and G?
Me: E's one of the old papers I've been trying to get you to look at for a month and a half. *hands it over*
Him: ...Ah. And F and G?
Me: They've each got at least some commentary so they should be fine too. *gets F and G*

The last three? All today. Arrrrrgh. Want to hide under the duvet to get away from the STUPID SPAZTASTIC MESS!

Comments

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

Can I recommend bookmarking his subdirectory?

(and explicitely not recommend rm -rf * while in there)

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

Sort of not the point, as he's made a point of telling me that he puts all the stuff he wants me to do in my subdirectory. Why check the bookmark if I don't know there's anything in it that I need to see?