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Ken,
It doesn't make you a bad person. It just makes you an asshole.

I can live with that.

I'm sure you can. I wasn't really criticizing you, just making a general observation.

Perhaps someday I'll tell you the story of my first rear-end inventory as a rookie supervisor many years ago. It will explain why, though I probably should be ashamed of taking pleasure in other people's misery, I'm not.

That explains a lot, Ken.

Hmm. I can tell where your head is.

It's been a long week for me too...

We giggle at Family Court Judge, because today and tomorrow are his busiest days -- while we have hardly anything.

He's up there hearing shit like "I don't want that whore anywhere near my preshus baybee!!!" and "She said she'd pick them up at 5:00, but I want them unti 5:15!!!" while we're all, "MMMMmm, cookies."

Ken, since I just finished the year-end inventory for my boss, I have to agree with Emily's assessment.

In spite of that character flaw, you're a nice guy. Like my boss, who thinks that property inventories are minor chores, but is otherwise a nice gal.

OTOH, the inventory consisted of aiming a portable scanner at barcode tags artfully hidden throughout two building and one SUV. Inconvenient, but far easier than conducting a 100% inventories of tool kits and other equipment:

"Squads! From your carpenter tool kit, each of you, hold up your claw hammers! How many wooden handles? How many fiberglass? Got it! Now, hold up your plumb bob and roll of string! Got it! Now,...."

So I shouldn't complain too much. And yes, that's EXACTLY what I had to do. :-/

See, the difference between your boss and me is that I know it's absolutely not a minor chore. But I don't have to do it anymore because I don't control my own inventory, as I did at my previous company.

That does it, though. I will write up the story of my first inventory in a separate post. I need to scan a picture to go with it but since I have to search for it I may have to add that as an update.

And for the record, if I were still required to control and count my own inventory, I would not blithely foist it off on subordinates.

I might still foist on off on them, but not blithely and not without at least buying them lunch.

Ken, the ONLY reason that I did it is because our secretary, er, ummmm, admin assistant decided to follow her husband to a new job in Germany, else she would have been tagged, not I.

(That and my boss is otherwise decent to work for. I discussed her main competitor for the job in one Friday Fuck Off Thread....at length.)

I then would have faded blissfully into the background, and let my boss (who is new to the job, BTW) deal with it.

It's also important to note that the senior leadership in my office is more than a little effed up, and there has been really stupid directives of late, causing more than a little turmoil. But that is a subject for a Friday Fuck Off Thread. ;-D

Not that I am happy with doing it, mind you. I was more than a little pissed. But there were some good points to the exercise, and it's done for the year.

And, oh yeah!, we have a new secretary, I mean, admin assistant, coming in a couple weeks from now. Guess who gets the property inventory thrown at them like a hot potato.......