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Dear Department Supervisor, Fuck you. Fuck your scolding little passive-aggro messages, fuck your little smiley faces, fuck your arrogant assumption that you're better at this job than I am even though I have 10 years seniority on you and you act like you're in high school. You know what, I'm sorry I said your wife wasn't doing a good job at editing 14 years ago (you should not have been your wife's supervisor while she was my temp, btw, wtf), but you could probably let go of that grudge now. Thank Sekhmet I don't have to work for you directly, you asshole.

Thank you, Borg, for giving me a safe place to vent.

Timelies all!

I'm sorry about the job, Dana.

Oh, wow. My new manager just cheerfully suggested I have a drink. While working. He knows I'm pissed off. This relationship may work out okay.

I have a PDF of an edited article that the authors reviewed (they can see tracked changes and any comment balloons with questions) where the authors used the sticky-note function in Acrobat to put a sticky-note that says "Edit is approved by the authors" by EVERY SINGLE CHANGE. Of which there are many. t edit I just checked, and there are 20-25 of these fucking notes on EVERY PAGE.

There is a special place in hell for these people. I have to check the content of every single note in case it has an actual change. Eeeeeeeeevil.

Well, my feeling is that if it's the kind of place that wouldn't accept his personal beliefs as sufficient, he wouldn't be happy working there.

Yeah, exactly. Hope something really great comes along soon!

Steph, I enjoy that so much. Also the many authors that send a separate comment file I have to download that just says, "Please see my corrections." OMG if you hadn't told me to look at the corrections I would've totally not! That was 30 seconds well spent, Author.

Also the many authors that send a separate comment file I have to download that just says, "Please see my corrections."

I had another author indicate changes in a PDF with the sticky notes, but then sent a separate Word doc with answers to the queries, WHICH ARE IN THE PDF AS COMMENT BALLOONS. They could have just used a sticky note next to each query!!!

And this one I'm doing right now -- with the 10,000 sticky notes -- the author isn't actually answering the queries I asked. (Like, "please provide a statement about IRB approval of this study" was answered with "UCSF IRB did not require patient consent." That's not the question I asked, you nimrod. I can't just assume that the UCSF IRB granted approval of the study -- although it's 99.9% likely that they did -- because you didn't explicitly tell me that they did, so now I have to email you back because YOU CAN'T READ.)

My bag has been delivered!

My cool shirts are return-ed to me.

My cool shirts are return-ed to me.

All rejoice in thy good fortune.

I had another author indicate changes in a PDF with the sticky notes, but then sent a separate Word doc with answers to the queries, WHICH ARE IN THE PDF AS COMMENT BALLOONS.

Like 40% of my authors will do that, send the marked-up PDF AND a list in a Word doc. And we have to go through both sets one-by-one because sometimes they put a change in one that they neglect to include in the other.

Steph, just on the off chance that this helps, you can view all of the comments in a PDF in a list, rather than having to individually click on every stupid balloon. You probably know this already, but even the thought of having to spend all that time working with PDF comments makes me sad.