Last week, I’m concentrating on a task, and a VP asks me into his office.

He says, could you please e-mail a document to “guy-whose-name-I’ve-never-heard”?

I say, what document? What guy?

He says, I’ll e-mail you his address and the document is on the intranet.

(At this point the astute reader will be wondering why he needs me for this. I’m a trainer and this is a sales guy. Well, this guy’s really swamped this week, maybe he just brainfarted. I like him so I’ll do this even though it’s really stupid)

I get the document off the intranet, but it still has our old logo on it. It’s a pdf, so I can’t change it.

I ask the technical writer to do it, as she has the original doc file.

She insists I clear it with her boss first.

E-mail her boss. Boss doesn’t get back to me. Tech writer forgets about it.

The next day, the VP asks me why the e-mail still isn’t sent. I tell him to lean on the tech writer.

All this bull, all these people disturbed because this guy thought it was easier for me to stop what I’m doing and send e-mail for him. Remember, he e-mailed me the e-mail address to send to.

That’s when I said, “if I’m home and they don’t see me, I cease to exist”.