Currently I'm working on coordinating various things with people. For one of them, I just had an interesting e-mail exchange. The paraphrase goes as follows:
Me: This is to confirm our meeting at X on Y.
Them: No, that date doesn't work. We can only meet at X on Z.
Me: Um...
(Quick review of previous e-mail from this person. Copy. Paste.)
Has something changed since you sent me this previous e-mail which says:
"Yeah, X on Y works."
Beats me what's going on there, save that this person perhaps did not check their date book as closely as they think they did.
Earlier this morning, I responded to another e-mail on another project.
Person: Hey, what's this thing on the thing? And why is this thing this way and not that?
Me: That thing is the shipping cost. The other thing is that way and not the other because the other thing was the initial estimate vs. the revised one, which I gave you a copy of the other day and told you it was the revised one.
Wall. Head. Smack. Repeat as necessary.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Break Downs
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Now, imagine that stuff, only you have to stare at a computer screen, drawing boxes with doors all day long, while going cross-eyed.
Yeah... I understand a mistake here or there, but sometimes it's less mistake and more habit.
When one realizes one may not be able to remember everything, that ought to be when one decides to write stuff down. And yet, this seems to be unfathomable to some.
Or the "oh, by the way, I forgot to mention this" emails that usually come after they would have saved you any amount of time and frustration, because you assumed that you were given all of the available information.
Multiply by 1,000 and you'll have an idea of how Corporate America works--or doesn't.
Which is one of many reasons I'm no longer there.
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