Today I met David, the boss of my boss, as I came in the door. He said, “That file you sent me is wrong.”<\/p>\n
“Yes,” I said, “I re-sent the correction.”<\/p>\n
“It’s still wrong,” he replied.<\/p>\n
When I first presented the file there were wrong numbers in it, but I had fixed them. Then I re-sent the slide without copying the right numbers into it, calling it a corrected version. Then after that I realized I hadn’t put the corrected numbers in, so I re-sent it. I figured he had looked at the uncorrected correction, so I re-sent him the corrected correction. I went to me desk and opened the file. The numbers that had been wrong were right. I found the e-mail I had sent and opened the attached files. I sent it to him again, figuring he hadn’t noticed it. The numbers were right there, too. Later in the day he asked about the file and I said I had sent him the correction. “Really?” David said. “I must be confused.” He opened the file and pointed to the totals. “I don’t understand those numbers.”<\/p>\n
“Yeah.. those are still wrong,” I said. “I guess I only fixed the other wrong ones.”<\/p>\n
David sighed. “That’s your second strike,” he said.\u00a0He was stressed over the upcoming meeting with the corporate bosses and was understandably not happy about double-proofing my work.<\/p>\n
“Third, by my count,” I said. (Go ahead, go back through and count the revisions.)<\/p>\n
“You’re shirt is wrinkled. That’s your third strike,” David said.<\/p>\n
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