THE Bain of my Existence
I would like to say it’s Satan, and on a better day it probably would be… HOWEVER, allow me to wallow in self pity and tell you about a woman I actually like, but currently she holds this title. She’s smart, tall, thin, cute, happy but not in an anooying way… actually we are sort of alike (not meant in a vain way)… but she does this thing where since she is smart but not super-smart, she assumes everyone else is at that level as well. So, she and I work together, OF COURSE. Like I said I like her, I really do, except for this whole assuming people aren’t that bright thing…
So she’s got a deadline for a project that my supervisor is also working on… so guess who gets to do all the grunt work for it… you guessed it “Haley the Intern” or ”Haley the ___ worker” (it’s like madlibs and you can fill in your own word there). Anyway, my supervisor, Mike says this to me, “Lady1 (that’s her name for this story) doesn’t need all the information you put into the last spreadsheets (already sounds fun doesn’t it???) like contact information and data formats, just a few costs estimates from some counties in the given states.” I say yes and go to work… I’m given some states, lets say MI, MN, and WI, because that’s what they were. So I do all the research, blabbity blah and I send her this email…
“… Mike said you only needed some cost estimates so here they are for the counties in each state:
MI – $.36 per parcel
$50
$108.40, or $100 when tax exemption is proved
“
So she frantically emails me several NUMEROUS times to find out “what do those numbers mean???” and I explain, using the EXACT SAME SENTENCE in the first email- literally copy/paste to the new one and she gets it. I know why too, because people do this all the time, they don’t READ their email anymore than they LISTEN to what you are saying… sure people hear you or they skim the email, but very few people LISTEN or READ. I think most people would chalk it up to the “ME Generation” but that’s not the case because she isn’t in this generation, and don’t fool yourselves, just because someone isn’t advanced in years doesn’t mean they are immature or self centered- it’s always a case by case basis.
Oh and I am venting because this isn’t the first or even second time she’s done this- she does it all the time. One or two, and you think “must be stress” or “maybe I wasn’t clear” but after several times it is pretty safe to assume she isn’t READING.
