Even More Weather

[rolanni]

Have I mentioned that the day-job has been a cesspool of insanity lately? Sigh. Also? If you -- yes, you over there under the coffee table -- are ever in the position of supervising someone? And your supervisee says they need lead time to do event posters, and gives the date by which information needs to be received in order to become posters? And you blithely let the deadline go by, only to demand several days later and one supervisee-work-day before the first event in the series that posters be produced on the instant? And the supervisee says, "I told you I needed lead time, not lead minutes?" The proper answer to that is NOT, "I don't care if they're ugly."

Of course, there is no win for the supervisee in this case, but to do the impossible. So, four posters (for the record, they are kinda ugly), and buncha other stuff that could've been done in January had-I-but-known-later, I crawled home and declared to Steve that I felt like I had been beat with a two-by-four, whereupon he wisely produced a glass of wine and "After the Thin Man." And that's how I spent my mini-vacation.

On today's schedule, my pass (following Steve, who has already done the heavy lifting) through the Duainfey revisions, then on to Longeye, while the snow flutters prettily out of the sky and I do not access the day-job email account.

Comments

If its any comfort...

[bookmobiler.livejournal.com]

I believe most 2x4's these days are more like 1-1/2x3 these days. Hope the wine unkinked you nicely.
I hope you offered a few meas culpas and praise to the ssupervisee. After all by the nature of things you'll probably find your self in the supervisee's position sooner or later. Bosses can be so unreasonable. :(

Re: If its any comfort...

[bookmobiler.livejournal.com]

OOOPS!
Pushed one to many buttons

[saruby.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who's a legal secretary. Despite constant reminders that she really needs to have documents at least a day ahead of the filing deadline so that she can do all those things that need doing, like cross-referencing citations and creating tables of contents, etc., she usually gets things about 2 hours before the filing time. I've suggested calendaring filing dates two days early, so that when she gets the documents she still has time. Of course, this doesn't help your situation much, since you don't get an advance notice of a due date. But know that you are not alone.

[elbales]

Ugghh. They make people get licensed to drive cars and do therapeutic massage and build houses. Whyyyy don't they make people get licensed to be bosses?
"Nope, sorry, your test results show you're an incurable jerkface, so you're out of the pool. Next!"

my sincere sympathies

[(Anonymous)]

ooohhh...this sounds so familiar. In fact, this is the reason our 3-person department (marketing and graphics for a public library) keeps a production schedule. One of the columns on which is "text due"...we hand them out to anyone who asks for last minute work and fool ourselves into thinking it helps solve the problem.

Sometimes I just make up the answers...then I usually like the decisions made. : P

I also tend to keep wine in the house... occupational hazard?

enjoy your weekend
Kristen B.

[patknuth.livejournal.com]

Once upon a time, posters required submitting workorders to graphics departments who had long lead times -- no exceptions. But under those circumstances, the supervisor might have expected the supervisee to use poster board and crayons.

Hope next week is better