There are no good Thai restaurants around here...but we had Thai food ordered in for lunch at the office today. It was ordered from a place I really don’t care for, but the food didn’t taste all that bad.

But fast forward half an hour…I am thirsty as heck!! This restaurant uses SO much MSG. I hate, hate, hate the aftermath of MSG. So I still dislike this restaurant. It’s um…very western friendly.

My boss sent me an e-mail today telling me to do something. I don’t know why the e-mail pissed me off so much, but it did. It said:

Rosie, I like you to print all the technical documents created to date (from the ____folder in Source Safe), put them in binders and store them on my shelf. This way we can reference them rapidly and have _____and so on review them easily. Add _____.doc as well.

1. I think it’s a really stupid idea to print out all the documents. It would be a waste of paper since these documents are not finished. Putting a 14 page document in a binder would look retarded, too. [I suggested we have all the documents in the set in one binder for now, but he said no. “These documents will get bigger, no?”]

2. If you want rapid reference, put them on the network and have people grab the document themselves.

3. Thanks, jackass, for telling me where I have been storing the documents that I’ve been working on since I started.

Also, is it strange to have a meeting and have documents for review sent out beforehand BUT not have a single person in the meeting bring a printed copy?

I can’t get away from this company soon enough…Yesterday was a department meeting. The three managers in the department told everyone their priorities for the next quarter.

Not only did none of my boss’ priorities involve me or integrate me into what’s coming down the pipe for the developers, but the yahoo (but a nice one) in IT has inherited the training manuals – manuals he gladly wanted me to do. I’d also mentioned to my own boss that I wanted to re-do the manuals. So this IT guy gets his career aspirations assisted (he wants to get into training), and I get jack shit. Not only have my boss and I never discussed my long-term plans, but he obviously hasn’t paid attention to what I have brought up before.