How to Make a Bad Situation Worse

I have a coworker, who we'll call D.O., who's been really pissed off at me for about a month now (inexplicably, violently so). Yesterday she really was snippy to me for no reason, and CC'ed my boss on her snippy emails to me. It went something like this... I'll abbreviate it a bit with [...] marks, so you don't have to read the boring bits. M.M. is my boss:

D.O. writes:
Erin, please [...] test entitlement for this company using circulars with 1998 and 1999 circular dates. Please let M.M. know what your results are.

Also, M.M. [...] if you want Erin to test the NEW Circulars for Real Time for a little bit tonight she can.

Erin, on the plan, I noticed one typo. [...]

Erin writes: Why 1998 and 1999? Why not 2000? Also, which plan are you talking about ? The Real Time Circ plan?

D.O. writes: Are you kidding me or what? I said 98 and 99 because that is where the problem was. I wanted that checked before I went any further. If I needed you to check 2000 I would have said 2000.

Also, if you look at the subject line and read the email it says REAL TIME ENTITLEMENT and the email references Circulars.

Forget it anyway. You do not have to perform any tests. M.M. advised that the problem is OK.

Erin writes:I'm sorry, but I don't know what problem you're referring to with the 1999 and 1998 circulars. I just asked for clarification, I'm sorry if that bothered you.

D.O. writes: All I asked you to do, was bring up the circs and report what you found. That is all you had to do. Two minutes of your time. You did not need any other information to perform the test.

To the note below needs no clarification: [..she pastes in the original paragraph]

As I said it does not matter now. We do not need you to test it.

After that I wrote to my boss explaining how D.O.'s email was upsetting to me. My boss explained that there had been a 404 Not Found error for the 1998 and 1999 circular pages. Why couldn't D.O. just have told me that in the first place?

The point here is, I felt bad about the exchange all day. D.O.'s emails were really mean. I'm still kind of upset about the whole thing.

Comments Individual Archive Index

May 8, 2003 04:05 PM, Maggie said:

Wow, D.O. is a an asshole. You should just not respond to her e-mails at all and see what happens. Blame it on Outlook if she addresses the issue.

May 9, 2003 10:41 AM, Sam said:

Wow.

You work with some majorly SUCKY people.

May 9, 2003 02:20 PM, Erin said:

I know! D.O. used to be really friendly to me, too, so it's a million times worse than it would be if she was just being a jerk. It's got that extra betrayel factor in there.

May 11, 2003 04:34 PM, thecomicman said:

kill her. kill her with a pencil. i'll help you hide the body.

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