Hey, you know what? That is the report for the ENTIRE month of May.

Sweet Jesus--just tell me what date the records in the database go up to...I think we both understand that June is missing, so I will dedicate today to the idea that some of May might be missing too. By 5PM, I should have the cutoff date. I'm assuming it's going to take him that long to work out that he needs to look at the last record in the table and tell me what its datestamp is.

It's like every instance of "Why don't you tell me what your goal is, not the task you have in mind?" is coming back to bite me in the ass. He will never *just* run the query I ask. I give him SQL fragments, and it's no good. He always has to decide what I mean, and give me that instead. It wastes hours, since he has yet to work out what I mean the first time he tries.

And...the difference between specifying the goal and the task is some of that targeted management I was talking about. But if the person you're talking to doesn't accept what quadrant they're in...it's like torture. TORTURE. Literally, I am tortured. Honest.

I just don't understand where the June data is.

I think it's in your ass.

Maybe it's his ass.

Maybe it's my ass.

But there's definitely ass all over this.

Hey... the June data is missing.

I think that quadrant thingy would be useful in assessing relationships, too. High/low maintenance plotted against high/low value.

There is no June.

I am also interested in this quadrant thing.

Is there a spoon?

ita has a moon!

I would just start every interaction with select max(thing_date) from stupid_database

Me, I just handed one of my uberbosses the spreadsheet from which the plots she's pestering me about are generated. Those are the crunched numbers going back several years, up to Wednesday. Guess what? W/Th/F are missing because we run these once a week on Wednesday.

I came here to run away from this conversation, and yet, something similar seems to be happening on the west coast too!

This is not the June data you are looking for.