Enjablog

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m not actually mean to the people at work, so I need to make fun of them somewhere. And if it’s not going to be in the office, it’s definitely going to be on here.

Yesterday:

New guy: “Do you have any work for me to do?”
Me: “Not right now… I’ll talk with The Boss and get back to you in like half an hour. I think he’s on a telecon right now.”
*email boss*

An hour later…
Me: “Did The Boss come talk to you yet?”
New guy: “No, but Boss Jr stopped by and gave me something to do. I’m working on that now.”
Me: “Ok, cool. Just wanted to check.”
New guy: “Did you have something else for me to do?”
Me: “No, just wanted to follow up and make sure you had something to do.”
New guy: “Ok.” *assures me that he’s not just sitting around doing nothing*

Today:

New guy: “Do you have any work for me to do?”
Me: “No… Did you finish the other work you were assigned?”
New guy: “Yes. I finished Task A and Task B.”
Me: “What about the new thing Boss Jr gave you yesterday?”
New guy: “What thing?”
Me: “I don’t remember… but you said Boss Jr stopped by to talk to you yesterday.”
New guy: “… Nope. Those were the only things I had to do. I didn’t talk to Boss Jr yesterday.”

Uhh… ok… Is he lying? Did he forget a whole conversation with someone giving him something to do? And then the part where he told me he was working on it?

Whatever… I’ll just go find him something else to do.

*walk over to Boss Jr’s office*

Me: “Do you have anything for New Guy to work on?
Boss Jr: “Did you finish Task A?”
New Guy: “Yes. The Boss is reviewing it.”
Boss Jr: “Did you finish Task B?”
New Guy: “Yes. That’s waiting on the CAD guys.”
Boss Jr: “Did you finish [the new thing] I gave you yesterday?”
New Guy: “Oh, yeah.”
(to me) “That’s what I was working on.”

Idiot. How do you forget what you’re working on if it’s only one thing? Sure, he was probably goofing off and forgot what he was supposed to have been working on. And if that’s the case, I really don’t care that much. Just don’t question my memory and look at me like I’m stupid for repeating something you told me yesterday.

Yes, I know. My standards are way too high. I understand that. But these people’s competence levels are way too low. They don’t understand that. Learn how to goof off properly. Sheesh.