‘The More You Know … the fewer love notes you get’
I spoke of dipshits two posts ago.
Well yesterday I was in full-bore writing mode from 5 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. when my brain activity ceased.
One of the things I wrote was something to head off a complaint from DTOM who gets mad when I don’t write about her pet project.
Well, I got the date of The Thing wrong.
Which, one of my beloveds recognized before we hit the “send” button on it to our best customers.
Would have been a shame to have the document I busted my ass on have a grave error.
I said wait a minute. I had copied and pasted the date, along with some language I don’t love, FROM A CHAT WITH THAT PERSON.
Sure enough, I found the chat in my receipt box. The chat was specifically DTOM hating my well-written idea and then changing it to sound more ridiculous.
So, joy, happy to hear that someone with one job blessed a bad date.
But also … that message was from 8/8.
Which means I ran the same incorrect info on that date to our best customers.
I shouldn’t admit to making a goof here.
But my struggle with this person is they are always calling me out and shaming me and trying to make me look stupid in front of multitudes of people.
And yet.
I have a box of receipts (screenshots) filled with “Look what this fool said or did now” — and, other than the 8/8 exception, I have how I/my team saved us from looking like boneheads.
The hilarious thing of it all was that when I sent my tome to production, I said if we get a “love note” about this, it won’t be because of a typo. (As I took a lot of poetic license with the copy.)
Well. This would absolutely have been our mistake (as DTOM takes no responsibility whatsoever). So kudos to my staffer who saved my ass.
Also kudos to my other staffer who caught a data error as well.
Every time I get data from someone (not DTOM), I check it but I don’t always catch everything.
And I DID know something was hinky with this data, but the way I fixed it made a bad situation less bad but STILL bad.
Anyway. I have more work to do today.
But I just want to express my joy at my hiring skills. These “saves” sounds little and maybe they are …
But as one of them said, “The More You Know … the fewer love notes you get.”