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[work] I did it. I pissed off Ariella as much as she pisses me off. It's an amazing feeling.
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I'm Tier 1 support for something Ariella does Tier 2 support for
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Ariella is kind of that Teacher's Pet personality but upped to the nth degree and made way more obnoxious because she's not a little kid, she's my age
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You can't even get annoyed at her sometimes because she's just so obnoxious that it comes off as "oh honey no" instead of "stop telling everyone how to do their jobs"
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Like, I get it. I want to make stuff right too.
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But maybe it's less important to be right and more important to have your colleagues like you. The colleagues you depend on to put your stuff through in an orderly manner
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If you ping me and go "Hey Allison I reassigned you X, Y and Z, could you do this instead of that? Thanks" I'm not going to be mad
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If you CC my bosses and tell me "I don't know what you're doing but this is all wrong and it needs to stop, who trained you, this is frankly upsetting" and the problem is that I wrote in one author's name instead of both?
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You're going to get bumped to the back of my priority list
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I'll still do your work, I'm not interested in letting the client suffer, but if you send back perfectly good records to me, you're going to make your clients wait longer
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So she sent back two of these to me all "PER OUR DISCUSSION"
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(there was no discussion, you just sent me another angry email)
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"you have to put the FULL first name of the author, not Person, A. like you have"
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Okay Ariella, I will do that.
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But you wrote me on Thursday after work, and now it's the weekend and OOPS wouldn't you know, I'm off Friday, guess I'll get to it on Monday
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I show up Monday and the tickets aren't in my queue and, curious, I track down the audit trail because I want to know if the customer cancelled them or if Ariella finally took them back
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Ariella took them back but she wrote a passive-aggressive note about how the tickets sat around for four days 'unassigned' (no, they were assigned, you just made them unassigned for no good reason) so she heroically swooped in to take care of them
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Three of those days were a weekend but that isn't what's making me laugh
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What's making me laugh
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Is that she's final-level-support.
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These tickets were completed
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She wrote an angry note, essentially, TO HERSELF, complaining angrily about people that would usually never see it, in a sea of hundreds of orders a day
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you should CC her bosses to tell her that
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hahaa
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And for the record, author's name is an optional field when the most important metadata about a record is (understandably), Title, DOI, publisher, journal name and ISSN and volume/issue/page numbers
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So after writing all that in and forgetting to add a second author instead of a first because this is one of 40 records I need to get through by end of day, when you can find the record in two clicks of a mouse?
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Seems like a waste of everyone's time
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Especially when I have MY boss breathing down my neck about processing these things quickly.
Shan-aconda
just do a per my bosses request
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Haha yeah
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I've talked with my boss AND Ariella's boss privately about this, framing it like a "hey I will do this if it's that important but from my POV it seems pedantic and childish"
CricketMomJenn
Oh my god
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and the best answer I've gotten from them was "just ignore her, ariella has a particular Way of doing things and nothing we say changes her mind"
spooky queer
hey ariella, gtfo.
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Shan-aconda
Jdfudnturb
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oh my godddddd
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i was about to say "oh no i think i'm like that" because i definitely, like, try to fix things and make sure we're doing stuff right even if that means correcting coworkers? but it's always like
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"wait i thought it was x" or "actually isn't it y?" or "oh no remember x?" not
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I AM UPSET AND I'M TELLING YOUR BOSS like jesus
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: Yeah I think a lot of us, especially the people in data or who are really detail-oriented, are like that
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So that's why i'm mostly prefacing this by saying NO NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND
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Ariella is the kind of person who QAs not to find mistakes and fix them but to embarrass and shame people
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And that's the part that I take issue with
spooky queer
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spooky queer
: Yeah, you know
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I had teachers like that. Yes, you're smart. Yes, you're right. You don't need to lord it over a bunch of second graders.
spooky queer
sooo annoying
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i relish ariella's suffering
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My grandmother had a favorite movie moment for times like these
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Harvey(1950) - Smart or Pleasant life?
bluecanary
my brother is like this l
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lol