I wish that I was making this up.

[plonq]

I am paraphrasing this conversation for the sake of brevity, but this is a pretty accurate recap of a dialogue that has spanned the past two weeks.

Dear Administrator,

The business has requested that we move their customer operations metrics from the Operations page to the Finance page. Please arrange to copy the page from the Operations portal to the Finance portal and grant me the same edit access in the Finance portal as I have in the Operations portal.

Thank you,
plonq

Dear plonq,

We have cloned the web page over to the new portal as requested, and removed your edit access on the old site to match your lack of edit access on the new site.

Thank you,
Administrator

Dear Administrator,

I'm afraid there must have been some miscommunication here. I need to be able to edit both sites, since we will be running them in parallel to give people a chance to update their links to the new site. Please restore my edit access to the Operations site and grant me edit access to the Finance site.

Thank you,
plonq

Dear plonq,

Sorry about that. We have re-enabled your edit access to the Operations site. Have a nice day.

Thank you,
Administrator

Dear Administrator,

Please see the attached screen capture, paying particular attention to the menu which I have highlighted and circled. As you can see I do not have edit access to the Finance page, but I need edit access to that page in order to maintain the metrics on that page. Please arrange to give me editor access for the Finance page.

Thank you,
plonq

Dear plonq,

Our records show that you have regular member access to the finance page. Here is a link to the 114 page manual for site maintenance. Hope this helps.

Thank you,
Administrator

Comments

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

WTF, batman

[fuzzytoedcollie.livejournal.com]

...and removed your edit access on the old site to match your lack of edit access on the new site.

That is totally surreal O_o!

Good luck straightening this one out!

[pfcottontail.livejournal.com]

Abused!