If I were you, I'd just hide for a while.

I need someone to wave a magic wand and take away object permanence for that to work.

I just found out that the firm credit card, which was my name on it, hasn't gotten paid since April.

NOT COOL, DUDE.

We spent the morning walking a contractor friend through the house to find out about the costs of renovations. Good but stressful morning.

This is the one whose article was published with an error? And he already knows a correction is going to be published? What else can you do? I mean *literally* what else can you do? Offer to fly him to your office so he can punch the person who made the error? Buy him a labradoodle? Seriously, what else does he want from you, beyond a correction being published?

He WANTS the online version to be corrected. I've explained that we don't change the online version once the print has been published; they have to be the same. He countered that no one even reads the print version anyway! (Not true, also, not the point.) He wants our longstanding policy to be broken just for him, because we screwed up, as if he's never heard of a journal making a mistake before. AND he just told me that he expects the erratum to contain the names of the people who screwed up, so that shaming them and "putting their reputations on the line" will make them do a better job in the future. The hell?! NO. I am livid.

(Never mind that the article was online for two months before print publication, during which time we could have fixed it. Never mind that it's been in print since February, and he's just now complaining. He says the staff editor who handled the paper never responded to his many emails about fixing it. I don't believe him. Seriously? Poor helpless him, he had to just sit there and let all those errors get into print because one person didn't respond! He couldn't possibly have emailed or called ME, or the EiC, or anyone ELSE whose contact information is readily available? The hell. And if he knew these errors weren't getting corrected last November, and he knew they'd gotten into print last February, why did it take him until July to demand heads on pikes? Yeah, we screwed up, but he gets some of the blame for obviously not paying attention, and now trying to pretend he knew all along and my team is just incompetent.)

He WANTS the online version to be corrected.

He wants you to swap out the version with the error for a corrected version? Oh, HELL NO.

AND he just told me that he expects the erratum to contain the names of the people who screwed up, so that shaming them and "putting their reputations on the line" will make them do a better job in the future. The hell?! NO. I am livid.

Based on the way you described him, I'm not surprised. I hope you told him that is not journal policy. What a GIANT dick.

At my old job, we ran a correction because of data the authors got wrong, and they wanted it to read "Blah blah blah was presented incorrectly due to an editing error." We laughed really hard at that and then wrote the correction the way it needed to appear ("Blah blah blah, reported as 30 mg/L; should be 30 mg/mL").

I haven't replied to him yet. I have to calm down enough to write an email that isn't going to get me fired. Yeah, he's a giant dick. He's a Fellow, he's been writing for us for twenty years or more, and he used to be the EiC for another of our journals (he was a dick over there too), so he really ought to know better than this crap.

And I just pulled Mac and myself off the parental' cell phone acct as there is no big advantage anymore and cut them a check to cover half of the bills for the last 8 months. Hands washed of that.

I ate greasy food for the first time in a week and a half, feel a little sick, BUT! It did not blow my calories for the day as long as I just have salad for dinner and don't drink.

she got married last week and is changing her name, so now she needs new email

My workplace apparently cannot change your email if you change your name. We have a bunch of women who have gotten married since they started working here and changed their names, so their email address has nothing to do with the name in their signature or on their nameplate or how they introduce themselves.

I don't understand it, we use gmail, how can that be impossible?

Damn, Lee, seriously?

And same to Zen.

I feel enough better today that I am pretty sure I really should have called in sick yesterday. Oh well, too late for that knowledge to help anyone now. And the things to do, they keep coming in faster than I can, you know, do them so maybe for the best there wasn't even less time with me Not Doing.

My workplace apparently cannot change your email if you change your name. We have a bunch of women who have gotten married since they started working here and changed their names, so their email address has nothing to do with the name in their signature or on their nameplate or how they introduce themselves.

I guess the story here is, they can't change the name on your account, but can only give you a whole new one. So for this woman, it's no big deal since she doesn't have existing emails. But it does make me want to ask another coworker who did get a new email after working here for at least a year how she handled it. But yeah, a lot of people just have outdated email addresses.

I just scheduled the plumber to come by at 8:30 AM Friday. I forgot about housemate, though, who gets up around 9 for a long shower. I think I'm going to just give him fair warning and suggest he get up early. Or, no, I should call back and re-schedule, shouldn't I.