Dilbert Moment du Jour

[opabinia]

Email excerpt from my boss, regarding an upcoming triplicate run of the most involved and time-consuming test I perform in this lab::

"[T]his does not take priority over routine testing even though it is critical."

Comments

[protogeek.livejournal.com]

Wow. Did he actually *read* that before he sent it?

the rest of the thread

[lepidosiren.livejournal.com]

-----Original Message-----
From: [boss]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 12:34 PM
To: [me]
Subject: RE: [work stuff]

Nothing like sending mixed messages.

:-)

-----Original Message-----
From: [me]
Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 11:53 AM
To: [boss]
Subject: RE: [work stuff]

"[T]his does not take priority over routine testing even though it is critical."

Hahahahaha.

:)
.[me]

Re: the rest of the thread

[protogeek.livejournal.com]

Ah, nice.

[iterum.livejournal.com]

My boss is wont to tell someone, "work on nothing else until this complicated project is done" and then within ten minutes will give that same person something else fairly trivial he would like done immediately.

For me the other day it was to compile a list of manuscripts for a particular volume of That Thing I'm Editing so he could write the authors over the weekend, but before I'd even started he wanted me to check through a pile of photocopied articles -- untouched for five or more years under a desk no one was using -- to make sure they weren't missing any pages. When I had complied, he took them away and put them in another out-of-the-way corner, where they will no doubt sit for another few years.