I am dealing with people who have a TALENT for long-term miscommunication.

I'm trying to communicate about a budget. They ask: tell us what you need in terms of expenditures. I give them a list of expenditures based on my estimate of what I spent last year.

Mind you, they keep all the records of what I spent last year. Their records are what I use to do my estimates.

So in September I gave this list. Heard nothing.

In December, I get another email: how much $$ should we send?

No acknowledgment of previous email or what questions they had in light of it. It's like I sent the email into a vacuum.

Those people get a forward of the original email with the old time/date stamp and an intro note of, "As I previously provided.....".

Off to therapy with mac. whheeee!

Yeah, I just had a "Oh, that discrepancy was because of the other guy." No, that discrepancy was you, a month after we fired the other guy. Not only is it in OUR emails, it's in this ticket you marked complete...

I just tested and passed something in QA that she then went again and did from scratch in production, so my tests didn't really count. She had 5 items to add, all added perfectly in QA, but she didn't add all five in prod two days later.

Her defense wasn't just blaming it on the other guy--the systems she was saying were different were cloned from each other two months ago with her as development lead. She did half the cloning heavy lifting. For her to turn around and say "Oh, legacy discrepancies..." means she's not even remotely paying attention.

Timelies all!

Yay Scrappy!

Galas, Braeburns and Honeycrisps are my go-to apples. Selection at my supermarket has been a little sparse last few weeks.

Those people get a forward of the original email with the old time/date stamp and an intro note of, "As I previously provided.....".

so, it is a bit more subtle than that.

I think they didn't quite understand what I sent before, or it wasn't in a format they wanted. So instead of saying, thank you for this, we actually need THAT. They just ask me the same question again.

It's like ask: "how many animals do you need?"

and I say: "I need 100 monkeys."

what they wanted to know is: what breed of monkey, delivered in what manner, but they ask instead: "how many monkeys?"

So we have moved to them knowing I need monkeys (out of all the animals), but they need more specificity. Because I don't really know which specifics they need, I cannot help.

That Kickstarter for Capes - that's my late sister in law's sister and the cutie pie boy in the yellow cape - my nephew. Edited - I had no idea she was doing this.

Or I knew she was making capes but didn't know about the Kickstarter thing.

In December, I get another email: how much $$ should we send?

Send them a random large number.

Askye, that's adorable!

I don't know why I'm sourcing soft core (totally SFW) fetish porn for Hec, but whatevs: [link]

Ugh, I don't want to open work email again. Maybe I'll go put on a pot of tea, make a PBJ (instead of eating the lone remaining test apple) and then catch up on fifteen minutes of nobody doing the thing I expect/want (I was in the developer's design review today explaining MIME types and how you have no responsibility for what happens on the user's machine once you have correctly matched the type to the content--our developer didn't understand that, the testers didn't understand that, just the one guy who runs the place, apparently, because he backed my bewildered ejaculation up))

Oh, and Granny Smith's are too sour to eat a week's worth. I need to mix some sweet in.

Right. Tea. With our without pesticides?

So I just talked to my current boss, and he said that if there's any veteran on the qualified list, there's almost no chance they can hire me. (And I was told there's a veteran on the list, but not whether they're on the Most Qualified list.)

I made a joke about shooting myself in the head and he reminded me that he's obligated to take that kind of threat seriously.

t cries

I don't know why I'm sourcing soft core (totally SFW) fetish porn for Hec, but whatevs: [link]

Woot! I don't expect Anne to stay in the short-hair zone but I'm certainly enjoying it right now. I think she looks fantastic with her cool little crop. (Obvs, NSM the one she gets in the movie.)