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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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 You're using a report that is two weeks out of date.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)
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 You're using a report that is two weeks out of date.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)