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Typing my fingers to the bone
Ivan the Terribly Average Started conversation Nov 8, 2011
Today was one of those days. On top of all the usual stuff, which of course I can't tell you about in any detail - a fact for which you should be grateful, 'cos it's boring - I had an urgent request for a full and comprehensive report on a particular issue. There was a list of questions to be answered, and it all had to be done immediately if not sooner.
So I sat down and typed and typed. The particular issue is one of my personal hobby-horses so I knew all the details and I could put something together. In fact, I put eight pages together answering all of the highly specific questions I'd been given. Typed, proofread, formatted and submitted in record time.
Then came the obvious response - 'Sorry, we didn't realise it was all that complex, but can you edit it down into a single page?'
So I did that and produced a page which answered none of the questions.
This was received with many thanks and a chocolate frog from the charity chocolate box, which I suspect means that the people asking the questions didn't understand the questions.
I am sick of typing. Sick of it. So I don't think I can manage to do a journal today.
Oh, hang on...
Ivan.
Typing my fingers to the bone
Mrs Zen Posted Nov 8, 2011
I hate that "oh we didn't reaslise it was as complicated as that..." carp. No shit Sherlock. You have my sympathy, Ivan.
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Researcher 14993127 Posted Nov 8, 2011
*doesn't read the journal that Ivan hasn't done* 
Typing my fingers to the bone
psychocandy-moderation team leader Posted Nov 8, 2011
Today kicked my arse, too. And tomorrow will be worse.
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