I want to destroy my boss in some horribly inefficient way.
I came in early today, as I will every day this week, to scan some particularly difficult parts. they take very little time to scan, but it takes a number of scans to get them to look right. they are chips on very odd shaped boards that are hell to balance. They need to be balanced because the plane we’re scanning must be perpendicular to the cone of ultrasound we scan with.
I get in at 7, and Bob (the boss) has left a message for me. Apparently she scanned some boards after I left on Friday. She says that there are boards to be shipped out in the office in a box. I need to scan the remaining 4 so we can ship out a lot of 12. We are getting these boards in several lots and shipping them out as we finish them, so this all makes sense. I go into the lab, and there are 4 boards on the lab desk. there’s a post-it on them that says “latest.” I assume they are the latest set we have recieved and they need to be scanned.
I spend the next 5 hours scanning these boards. a total of 8 parts (2 chips per board) and 2 images per chip. I have all the images saved, and I head out to lunch. I get back and there are comments on some of the images that she want me to re-scan. I dig up the files in the directory to check out what she’s talking about and I see the object of her stupidity.
As I was checking out the images, I noticed another folder she had made in the main directory for this project. I clicky on it, and find that it is where she had put the images she’d stored on Friday. they were of the 4 boards I had just scanned. This is where my brain breaks… She hops in on a project I had been taking care of, scans a bunch of parts, puts the images in a different directory I won’t know to look into, and puts a post-it labeled “latest” on the scanned parts which is easily misunderstood as “latest recieved.” If they were the latest scanned, they should have gone into the box in the office. To boot, she had taken home the project folders to review data over the weekend so I have no idea what she’d done on Friday.
So my whole morning was wasted. I would have been better off sleeping in. I don’t care if she’s my “boss”… If she’s going to step in on my project, she can follow MY damn protocols. and if she wants to change something, fine… at least let me know what’s being changed. Fucking irresponsible. and now it’s my ass when this project is late.
/rant
-IggDawg
I think the only time it’s ok not to communicate your intentions to another is: When they are your enemy.
Piss poor professionalism there on her part.
Indeed. This is her first stint as a “boss” of any sort, so I guess she desirves a little slack for that. but still, if you mess with someone else’s work, you at least let them know what you did… Even if you do follow their method.
blarg.
chtuhlu is at it again huh?
get promoted, then fire her.
I wish I had mod powers in my meatspace. that way I could just ban her. I need to work on that one.