It's as if our office were doing the SGA Wordless Challenge, only without the fun.

[bironic]

Today's workday is brought to you by the sentence, "Interdepartmental communication is a GOOD thing." This email volley I had with the manager of another department is the least of it:

Manager: I spoke with the Doctor. I will take care of the [thing he has to take care of]. She wanted to make sure that her content was beefed up. Is that the case?

Me: What does "beefed up" mean in this context? More text, or more procedure names or geographic locations or mentions of her name, etc., within the text?

Manager: I did not know it was so complex. I am not sure what she meant; however I thought she was referring to text.

Me: Yes, all those things I mentioned have to do with the text. I was wondering, when she said she wanted it beefed up, what did she want more of?

Manager: I just spoke with her today. I think she just wants to beef up content.

...Yeah. In other news, the photo meme results went up last night, if you missed them (and care).

Comments

[rivers-bend.livejournal.com]

oh my. Yes. That definitely looks like without the fun.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

To whimper or strangle, that is the question. Heh. The crowning achievement of the morning was IT changing all the passwords to access/update in-progress projects without telling anyone.

[renoir-girl.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD.

If you didn't strangle him there and then, you deserve a pat on the back for restraint.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ha. Yeah. It's always something, every day. I shall comfort myself now with a Fig Newton.

[purridot.livejournal.com]

Haha, the new phrase that I am going to trot out at every befuddled occasion is: I did not know it was so complex. If only I had Wilson's puppy dog eyes to really sell it!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

And there are so many ways to deliver the line: like a robot, like a helpless woobie, in wide-eyed wonder...