Tired
Just got home. Been out for dinner with R, who is down from ‘oop norf for a couple of days. S and E also came along, so it was a great time, the cackle of 4 women sat in Nando’s for 4 hours. Luckily they weren’t too busy, else we’d have probably been kicked out.
Not sure if LELI is talking to me - we have both been involved in this project which has already been going for months, and is going to keep on going for many more months. Part of it involves pulling large amounts of data to give to outside consultants, which, much to his disgust, fell to him a few months ago. Well, him and his boss to be fair.
Now, at the time I kept going to K and asking if he needed me to check anything, was everything going okay, etc, etc. But that team - and K in particular - are so fucking anal about everything, he just kept replying that everything was fine, and refused to let me actually look at anything.
Yesterday I discovered that 2 of the items the consultants had asked for had not been provided. These are related to Z’s ‘hot topic of the week’, and so he will be furious that they are not included. I spoke to LELI yesterday asking why they hadn’t been sent, and he (finally) sent me over a spreadsheet listing all the things the consultants had asked for, and what we had provided them with, and from where each item came.
Next to the 2 items in question was the notation, “DATA NOT AVAILABLE”.
Oh fuck. Yes it is. Quite clearly, on the main file we all use, look, there, the two variables.
LELI just shrugs. “I do not care, it is not my problem.”
Unfortunately, it is now his problem. I had to send out an email to Z and E (his big boss, equivalent of Z) and copy in everyone else involved, basically saying that although these 2 variables are probably not that predictive, given that my team is currently writing two papers proposing changes based on these 2 variables, they probably should be included. Oh, and by the way, there is no resource in my team to do this. So E, after a couple of emails asking for further information, has said that it will fall to LELI, with W’s help, to pull this data over the next couple of days.
I have hardly seen LELI since, and he’s not replied to my last text……
Still, it’s their own fault for being so bloody anal. If they had shown me this 3 months ago, I could have told them where to find the data.