Life-sucker…..
Work is doing my head in. I am still working in the office which is local to home - and the woman I work with is really driving me mad.
I hadn’t seen her for weeks until yesterday - I had a week off, then she had a week off, then it was Christmas, then I wasn’t there on Monday (at the base office).
Today I wanted to slap her silly.
There is a project coming up - I was asked how much work would be involved. It is outside my experience, so emailed my boss for advice. He came back saying it was a huge job, and that my compnay would need to quote them on it, and to get her to speak to R. I passed on this message.
She didn’t ring them.
After a week, I asked if again to contact them.
Still she didn’t.
So I rang R, and asked if he could at least give me a ball park figure, otherwise it just wouldn’t move on. He said that the company had done something similar for 2 other companies recently, and it would likely be a 6 figure number.
I passed this on, to be met with, “That’s ridiculous, it won’t cost that much.” How do you respond to that? She asked me how long it would take, I ask the people who know, they say it’s a big job, but somehow she knows better.
This was back in November.
And there is still nothing done. She hasn’t contacted my company. She still wants to “have a go at doing it ourselves” in our spare time, despite me telling her (a) I don’t know how to do it (b) can find no documentation on how to do it and (c) when I ask the ‘experts’ they say it needs to be specced out properly, and paid for as a proper project.
I was off for a week before Christmas, and a colleague from my company was there in my place. During that week they installed some software on one of the spare machines. This is software we have not had before, and have an evaluation copy of. Yesterday she asked me, “What licence key did we apply?” “Erm, I don’t know, it wasn’t me that applied it.” “Well, I need to know.” “Right - didn’t you right it down when you took notes on what you were doing?” She went quiet.
Today, she was obviously going through the ‘notes’ (I type that derisively, for ‘notes’ read the company instructions, with comments scrawled on it like “this takes ages” and “this is not a screen shot”) and she holds up this sheet of paper. “This is a post-installation checksheet, and it looks like we have only ticked some of the boxes. Does that mean we didn’t do it all?” HOW THE FUCKING HELL DO I KNOW WHAT YOU DID, YOU DID IT WHEN I WASN’T HERE……
To cap it all, today she announced “You have to come in on Monday 19th.” “That is less than 2 weeks away….” “Yes, but you aren’t doing anything, you can swap it with that Friday.” This has been happening a lot, and I spoke to my boss about it months ago, and passed on the message that although we will do our best to accomodate, they really need to give one months notice. And although it is not work, I actually do have something arranged near my base office that Sunday, on the understanding that I would be there on the Monday.
I haven’t been able to speak to my boss today to talk about it. I will speak to him tomorrow, and tell him I am really fed up with it.