Current Events > "I wish you asked me before proceeding."

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Me (unsaid because I'm a damn professional): "I asked you months ago, but you didn't have time then, and you apparently didn't have time until now, and this needed to be done, so I did it on my own, but apparently not to your aesthetic taste."

Context matters.

"Did you get the memo?"

Sounds like someone has a case of the Monday's.

I already told you! I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to!

Full context:

My client on Thursday/Friday moved into a new office area, and I told them at the beginning of the year that we needed to get up evacuation maps.

They dragged their heels on responding to that.

I asked for facility maps so I could make and post my own without their help.

They dragged their heels on responding to that.

One month ago they had a visit from the local FD who noticed they didn't have evacuation maps.

The general manager finally sent me a map. I made nice and bright evacuation maps which I had printed at large size, laminated, and I posted on the walls.

The HR manager took me aside to tell me that they need to be redone because they don't match the office aesthetic.

To her credit, we sat down and did it together so she could "do it right" and they'll be up to her taste but I almost flipping lost it when she said I should have come to her first.

CyricZ posted...

I almost flipping lost it when she said I should have come to her first.

How did you respond to that particular nugget?

SHRlKE posted...

How did you respond to that particular nugget?

I made a topic on CE.

I didn't say anything. I just let it hang. She wasn't really saying it to me, but to her computer screen, so she couldn't see my face tense anyway.

CyricZ posted...

Full context:

My client on Thursday/Friday moved into a new office area, and I told them at the beginning of the year that we needed to get up evacuation maps.

They dragged their heels on responding to that.

I asked for facility maps so I could make and post my own without their help.

They dragged their heels on responding to that.

One month ago they had a visit from the local FD who noticed they didn't have evacuation maps.

The general manager finally sent me a map. I made nice and bright evacuation maps which I had printed at large size, laminated, and I posted on the walls.

The HR manager took me aside to tell me that they need to be redone because they don't match the office aesthetic.

To her credit, we sat down and did it together so she could "do it right" and they'll be up to her taste but I almost flipping lost it when she said I should have come to her first.

Yeah, that sounds super frustrating.

That is messed up. To me that's a mark of a bad boss when they want to blame everything that goes wrong on somebody else.