crazies

today is going to be a crazies day at the office.

case 1:

BOSS doesn't think we should have requested access to a customer interface because it puts too much responsibility on us. i told her i requested it only so that i knew what the customer's experience was if we got involved with problem-solving down the road.

i know that had i not requested it, one day down the road when we were looped into problem-solving and i didn't know what the customer interface was, she'd be asking why i didn't know this.


case 2:

coworker has asked repeatedly why there are two versions of one report. i informed him that "A" is the regular monthly distribution, and "B" is the quarterly distribution, based on "A", targeted toward upper management.

coworker asked, "so which came first, 'A' or 'B'"?
i said, again, "'B' is based on 'A', so 'A' came first."
coworker, "ha ha, it's like the chicken or the egg...which came first? ha ha."

no, it isn't. A came first.

(and for the record, some in the scientific community have determined that between the chicken and the egg, the egg came first...because that egg was laid by a not-quite-chicken bird, whose mutated offspring became the first chicken.)

same coworker answers Instant Message questions by shouting over cubicle walls, rather than typing a response.

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