Mad Cow Disease

I'm having a real attitude problem today. I always thought it took too much energy to hate someone, but the stupid cow I was forced to train is making that thought obsolete. She's only been doing estimating four, five, maybe six months and she already knows everything.

What I don't understand is that the boss is sucking it up like a milk shake. She goes down to his office to expound on her latest revelation on how to change our job and chats for 20 or 30 minutes. I go down there with a problem and am allotted 2 minutes. And I'm not exaggerating. That's exactly what he told me yesterday when I pointed out a potential problem. Oh yeah, he said, "Fix it and let me know what you do".

This woman is too stupid to know what she doesn't know. How can you improve something when you don't even know what you're supposed to be doing? In addition she's flooding him with her achievements in revamping procedures. Unfortunately the "procedure" she is talking about is the project of someone else in a different department. This poor guy has been sweating over it for more than a year and the cow claims it as her own. GRRRRRRR!

There's a whole bunch of us waiting to see her crash and burn. I volunteered to bring the marshmallows to roast when it happens. And it will happen. She has yet to experience more than one project at a time while the rest of us poor schmucks are juggling 20 to 25 on a regular basis.

For once in my life I have decided not to step in and help when she comes whining about her workload. I've taken jobs from any number of people over the years, but I draw the line here. I made the mistake once of asking an ex-estimator for a couple of hours of her time and she said, "I'll have to check my calendar first". Even that didn't stop me. Yeah, I'm too stupid to say no.

Jimbob says I won't do it, but he's wrong. That's it, no more, go suck an, egg, go give the boss a b--w job, but get outta my face.