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July 06, 2007
She Drives me Crazy (and NOT in a Good Way)
Interns can be really great or not so great. Agree?
Thinking Fool (Via Instant Message): The intern wants me to review her latest draft and offer feedback.
Coworker #3 (Via Instant Message): And?
Thinking Fool (Via Instant Message): Specifically, she emailed me the following: "This is the 3rd draft of a memorandum. It incorporates some of your comments and is still in rough form."
Thinking Fool (Via Instant Message): Now, my first question is why the fuck do I want to review anything from an intern that is in "rough" form, especially when I already looked at this assignment last week for about an hour and provided at least two pages of substantial feedback.
Coworker #3 (Via Instant Message): I thought you liked this intern.
Thinking Fool (Via Instant Message): She's nice, but is irritating me.
Coworker #3 (Via Instant Message): Coworker #4 loves her.
Thinking Fool (Via Instant Message): Then why can't she bypass me completely and always go to him?
Coworker #3 (Via Instant Message): Because that’d be less fun for you, don’t you think? ;-)
Thinking Fool (Via Instant Message): Let me quickly summarize the comments I wrote on her previous draft.
Thinking Fool (Via Instant Message): I basically pleaded with her to: (1) READ THE FUCKING EMAIL I SENT YOU A WEEK AGO THAT PROVIDED TIPS ON HOW TO DO YOUR JOB CORRECTLY; IT ISN’T A VERY LONG EMAIL, BUT DOES CONTAIN VALUABLE INFORMATION THAT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I DIDN’T TYPE FOR MY HEALTH; (2) CHECK THE CASE NUMBERS before you're done printing and giving me stuff to review. I know this is shocking, but we want the case numbers to match the names of the people assigned those numbers. Yours often don't match. Here's the URL where you can find this information. Obviously you aren't quick enough to figure out how to get the info from the shortcut on your desktop; (3) STOP giving me shit with the same errors over and over and over again. You’ve been here long enough that these errors should no longer be happening – these aren’t substantive errors; they’re things you’ll catch if you actually proofread stuff before giving it to me; (4) Have a very nice, delightful day. Oh, and one more thing. FUCK YOU!
Coworker #3 (Via Instant Message): Did you actually write that?
Thinking Fool (Via Instant Message): Yes, but in a very nice way.
Remember the song that the scarecrow sang in The Wizard of Oz? Well, somebody do me a favor and PLAY IT!
Comments
That intern sounds like a tool. I never turn anything in that's remotely "rough draft" to my supervisor; I turn in a "final draft" and ask for feedback on that.
P.S. - The Wiz > The Wizard of Oz
Posted by: angela at July 8, 2007 03:23 PM
I hope you get to write her some kind of evaluation. Or offer to serve as a reference. She deserves it.
Posted by: Harmless Error at July 8, 2007 09:41 PM
Maybe she is just intimidated by/respects you. Or, more likely, she is just incompetent.
Although to be honest I am a terrible proof-reader so I can't be too hard on her. But of course, I AM incompetent.
Posted by: over_educated at July 9, 2007 08:39 AM
Nobody is intimidated by me, over_educated. :-)
Posted by: Fool at July 9, 2007 09:02 AM
...and here I thought she just had a crush on you. I know I always try to look incompetent when I'm out on the prowl. :)
Posted by: Faith at July 17, 2007 09:26 PM
