Compare / Contrast

[thessalian]

...So I'm apparently not doing my job well enough because I don't fill things out in triplicate and can't be in five places at once. I must be some sort of minor deity, or I'm not worth employing.

Compare and contrast:

One of my instructions involved chasing up a comment from one of the members of the Editorial Board on an older paper. I couldn't find it in my system anywhere, so I assumed it must not have arrived and wrote the Editorial Board member to chase it up. I just got a phone call from Lady Competence saying, "Don't chase him up! We already received that and I passed it along to [Ham-Fisted Editor] myself! Sorry; it just didn't go through you; it went through Michael, who sent it to me, and then I sent it to [Ham-Fisted Editor]". So apparently, he forgot this entirely and Lady Competence, bless her, tried to catch his fuck-up, only to find that, too late! I, with all due eficiency, had already done my job and chased up the apparently non-existent commentary.

That and he can't spell, can't use grammar, asks me for papers that don't exist, gives me faulty contact details for referees and generally sends out a slew of directions that don't make sense.

And I'm the one being told I'm not good enough.

I think I'm going to go home and mope.

Comments

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Asses. I assume this is from the lips of Hammy, via Michael?

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

So wait...Moron McStupid's muckups are being blamed on you? WTF?

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

Yes and no. It's more like I'm expected to work through his fuck-ups, still get everything else done and record all of the above in triplicate, or else I'm not good enough to work there. While he can fuck up all he likes and never see consequences because he's ... well, a doctor and an editor and in charge.