Ill again!
I can’t believe I have come down with a cold again, so soon after the last one. I guess it was probably because I was so gung ho last time - went to work all the way through it, when I would have been better off taking a couple of days at the start.
So this time that’s what I’ve done. I started sneezing Sunday, so stayed in all day, and did a big pile of cooking - huge vat of curry sauce base, and two big saucepans of beans - kidney and black. No matter how convenient, soaking and cooking them yourself tastes tons better than canned!
Yesterday I should have gone to office base, which would mean getting up at 5.30 to drive there. Given that I didn’t fall asleep until 5, that was just a no-no. I had to spend some time doing work though, 45 minutes or so on a conference call about where I work - the contract is up for renewal soon, and two of the bosses are coming down for a meeting next week.
It was quite a surprise - I knew that I worked with a fuckwit, but I didn’t realise how little my boss thought of her as well. I don’t know officially, but I think she may have been promoted at work. In post. So to a higher grade in the team she is currently working in. The one she doesn’t have a clue what to do.
I rang her this morning to tell her I wouldn’t be in, and she was almost in tears. She has been ‘having problems’ doing something which is so routine. She was asked to do three migrations from one system to another - this would normally take about an hour per one for me to do.
She spent most of yesterday doing one, then got stuck so left it. Just left it. I asked her if she had done an internet search for the message she was getting. What a stupid question that was, how naive of me to think she would do that.
She has been cutting and pasting bits from the instructions because, “Well, you know, they are very ambiguous….” No they’re not. Not if you’re not an idiot anyway.
It is so frustrating, she does something wrong, then rather than fix it, she either stops completely (which is actually the better of the two), or carries on and ignores the errors. When she does this, she then fucks it up even more. Yet when I say that I can’t put it right, given that I have no idea what she has done wrong, and that it’s better to just undo the lot and start again, she refuses point blank. Where do I go with that?