Now my student intern and I are ready to kill each other. She just did a mailing, and when I wrote the letter, I dated it (mistakenly) September 2011. She asked me about it, and I said something like- "wow, I was really ahead of myself". I assumed she changed it before printing it. She did not.
What is really irritating, though, is that when I said we were going to have to pull them, she said that she shouldn't have to redo it because it was my fault for not telling her to change it.
I am totally willing to share responsibility, but I hate that knee-jerk "not my fault" thing! It is partly her fault, and anyway, would you say that to your boss! I have redone hundreds of things that were my bosses' faults, AND pretended they were my fault!
She thought going to print with an obviously wrong date was just fine, and if only you'd mentioned that that date was in the future!
she said that she shouldn't have to redo it because it was my fault for not telling her to change it.
Um..yeah..somebody needs to learn the concept of boss and subordinate.
Um..yeah..somebody needs to learn the concept of boss and subordinate.
this is something that a lot of young people don't realize. I have started having a very frank chat with my student assistants before I hire them.
Blrgh. Last week, I got an email from the big law librarians association saying I had won a drawing for free registration to the annual meeting in Philadelphia, which would have been awesome because I would get to see Sparky and meet some of the people from Philadelphia I work with a lot, but there's no way I can go this year.
Small consolation--one of the reasons I can't go this year is that I will be cavorting in Vegas with Plei and Cashmere and Brenda (I think) just a few days after the conference.
I am totally willing to share responsibility, but I hate that knee-jerk "not my fault" thing! It is partly her fault, and anyway, would you say that to your boss!
Even if it was ENTIRELY your fault (which it wasn't), she'd still be responsible for redoing it. Because you're her boss and you TOLD HER TO.
