Blargh.

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

An IM conversation an hour ago:

Cow-irker: kizayaen? we have an issue with the rates for $CLIENT.
Me: Has $BOSS been told? She did a bunch of work on them Friday. If we change them, then she'll need to redo calculations for rounding errors.
Cow-irker: ok. the tobacco discount isn't being calculated properly again... and $BOSS is in transit.

An email from cow-irker a few minutes ago:

kizayaen,

Here are the rates that are currently incorrect in the database for $CLIENT. Please make sure you update $SERVER2 after updating $SERVER1. Attached is $SPREADSHEET with the specific $DATA.

CC: $BOSS, $COW-IRKER_BOSS, $COWORKER2, $NAME_I_DON'T_RECOGNISE

What part of "somebody else has to handle this" equals "Sure, send your boss AND mine an email implying that I've agreed to do it?"

I responded with a semi-snappy one-line reply-to-all email along the lines of "As I told you on IM, I'm extremely hesitant to fill the tables with data that $BOSS is just going to have to immediately correct again."

Comments

[ateji.livejournal.com]

Yay for covering your ass. >_< If only it weren't necessary.