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[plonq]

My co-worker has been driving me up the wall all week.  For the past few days he's been plugging through one of our daily status reports.  These things are a few thousand lines each, and he's working though it one line at a time, checking on the state of things.

We run this report daily because the status of things changes daily.

He's working his way through a report that is two weeks old.  I have repeatedly chewed him out for this, and he knows that I disapprove, and why, but he refuses to grab a current report until he's finished working his way through the old one that he has.  Here is the conversation that has been repeated several times a day so far this week.

Him: Hey plonq, have a look at the records on this car.
Me: (resigned sigh) OK, I have the records in front of me.  What's wrong with it?
Him: That's what I want to know.  It's on the report showing a gap between Rouses Point and St Luc, but I don't see it.
Me: (sigh again) That's because the gap has been fixed, and you're looking at an old report.
Him: So why is it still on the report?
Me: (resisting the urge to throttle.  Enunciating carefully) It's not still on the report.  If you looked at today's report you would not have found this one.  You're using a report that is two weeks out of date.
Him: Well, I just want to finish this one off.
Me: (another little piece of me dies)

Comments

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

It's because of co-workers like this, they took away my slingshot and ball bearings.
I remember way back in the past century, in a yard office far, far, away, an old cheif clerk still had cattle watering forms on his desk 20 years after the last stock car rolled through. Amazingly enough, after the assistant agent threw them out, he restocked his desk with them. He had a secret stash somewhere.

[furahi.livejournal.com]

How nice of your coworkers to call you "Little LJ dude-Plonq"

[anthony-lion.livejournal.com]

I see three possibilities...

1. Talk to your boss about him. Tell him that your co-worker is wasting his time and whatever they're overpaying him. Probably won't help, though...

2. Run ALL OTHER versions of the report through a shredder(or delete them if they only exist electronically), then accidentally spill glue or something else sticky all over the report he's wasting his time on....

3. Electric cattleprod and a dark stairway...

[mwalimu.livejournal.com]

Just curious, but how bad would it muck up your system if there were two or more cars that had the same reporting marks?

I've seen cars parked on sidetracks for storage many times in my area. Most of them have some graffiti on them, some enough to obscure the reporting marks. With careful use of paint and stencils, it wouldn't be that difficult to turn two autoracks into identical twins.