Friday 12 February 2010

Search And Destroy

The Boss : "Did you book reference KLU0014?"

Here's me : "Hang on, I'll check."

I type this into the 'find' box and start rolling a cigarette.

The Boss : "What are you doing? You said you'd look for that reference!"

Here's me : "The computer is looking for the reference."

This shuts her up for all of three seconds.

The Boss : "You should know yourself if you booked it!"

Here's me : "I tend not to commit a couple of hundred strings of digits to memory each week, ta. The computer will find it, if I've booked it."

The Boss : "Look for it yourself!"

Here's me : "Quite frankly, no. Be patient."

Outlook finds the reference but only in a mail from The Boss to someone else that I was cc'd on.

Here's me : "You booked that reference. The search has just pulled up an e-mail from you."

The Boss : "YOU NEED TO STAY ON TOP OF YOUR FILES! YOU CANNOT JUST USE THE COMPUTER!"

At this point, having had an odd week, I stood up from the chair and laid my upper body across my desk. After a few seconds I was, quite fairly really, denounced as a cheeky bastard, and went over to The Boss and explained the situation.




The Boss : "How do you know?"

Here's me, the sarky little shit : "The computer told me..."


Her face says to me that this will not be a good way to proceed.

Here's me : "...so if you take a look, I assure you, you will find details of KLU0014 in your e-mail."

The Boss stares at the screen for a few seconds and then looks at me and says : "But that'll take ages!"







I guess it maybe takes the edge off this a bit but in the interests of fairness I must report that she both asked me how to get Outlook to find the relevant e-mails and also did apologise. 



Enjoy your weekend folks.
x

7 comments:

  1. Truly, you have the patience of a saint. Have a good weekend (and a few bottles of wine)yourself.

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  2. When you don't post for a few days, we start wondering if you head has asplode. Answer: yes.

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  3. Well, it's just not good enough - relying on computers, and shortcuts - what do you think this is, the 20th Century?!

    You know pefectly well you need to print out the source code for everything in your computer, and have it memorised by Monday: better include the operating systems code too, just in case Ronan Keating hacks into it, or it falls into a multiverse-traversing bin...

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  4. hehe she's learnding! And not completely obtuse!

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  5. How is your boss so much like mine?

    Oh well, at least I quit in two weeks.

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  6. bosses, all bosses are aces and they really "love" it when the little ones (us) know more than them about things and stuff....

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  7. Manuel, the day will come soon when I next have to entertain corporate customers in a social setting, and if this should happen, I'm angling for myself and The Boss to end up dining at yours. It'll be the joint-blog-entry-of-doom, I tells thee.

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