I cannot express how many times this has happened to me during projects. you're usually on point, scott, but this one almost makes me mad how true it is.
Hello. Mullet boss's abuse of Scott seems a little half-hearted today.... also I don't think you do requests but my friend's grandfather just passed away so I was wondering if you could do a BI on how to deal with loss Anyway I love your comic and keep up the good work!
I have had this exact experience some years ago when my boss at time sent back the report I had been working on with a sheaf of notes and "corrections". I amended the report and it came back with a load more notes with instructions to remove nearly everything she had instructed me to insert...
The third frame is just too painfully true for me, even if it is equally funny. When I was writing my thesis, drafts to/from my advisor seemed to be going back and forth endlessly. To keep things uncluttered, I was not thinking; I would shred a draft as soon as I'd put the corrections in, until some of the 'corrections' started seeming way too familiar. The shredding stopped, and I caught my advisor adding/deleting/readding his own corrections... a lot! When I told him this was happening, he flatly denied it. When I showed him several successive drafts, the endless draft rewrites ended.
I have finally caught up. I discovered this website last week and have been reading through the archive with gusto! And Missy's blog too. I adore you both :D
Keep up the good work! (I'll look into subscribing if I get a job I'm hoping for!)
@ JJ : depending on the situation of your loss, recently we got "Technology's Disturbing Philosophical Implications" which relates to immortality and who doesn't get it, and the earliest BI comic in the archive is "How to Avenge Your Brother's Murder". I assume this is hypothetical since Scott's brothers show up in the strip subsequently, talking about their challenging childhood. There's also "How to Express Condolences", "how to Videotape your Will", and "How to Resurrect a Dead Character". ...Oh! :-)
Robert Carnegie wrote: "-Yellow- ink? Omg, do you mean highlighter?"
Ink is an essential product in the manufacture of highlighters, markers, and pens. When you cease to use a highlighter to highlight text and begin writing instructions, text and sketches, calling it "yellow ink" rather than "yellow highlighter" is more descriptive. I worked with an engineer who liked to use highlighters to mark up revisions on P&ID schematics and wrote field notes with whatever he had handy (pen, pencil, marker, highlighter, grease pencil)... ever try to read scribbled yellow "highlighter" notes on canary yellow legal pads?
OK, now I'm really angry. I spent 6 months working for that boss last year. I'd write a damn good document, he would dictate edits over the phone, I'd make them, then he'd want to see it, then he'd criticise HIS edits and blame me, dictate more edits - which were usually off-topic and/or wrong - and so on. Some documents went through over 12 cycles of edits and were 3 weeks late in being delivered. And sometimes he would demand the final copy, change the name to his name and submit it himself.
In the end I told them to stuff the job and walked ... at my wife's insistence as she could no longer handle what the job was doing to my health and confidence.
Managers like that should be killed. Slowly. And their children and siblings sterilised just in case. And their parents imprisoned for life for raising such a damaged individual.
Is there something wrong with me? Whenever I see Collaborate I get the lyrics for Valnila Ice's Ice Ice Baby stuck in my head. "Stop collaborate and listen." Yes there's something wrong with me.
May 31, 2012
Reader Comments (25)
Now I really want to see the angry client's reaction to the report.
I cannot express how many times this has happened to me during projects. you're usually on point, scott, but this one almost makes me mad how true it is.
OK. That first panel there is puuuuure comedy gold! Excellent comic! Well played, sir.
Been there, done that, tore the T-shirt to shreds . . .
-Yellow- ink? Omg, do you mean highlighter?
Scott, master of the subtle put-down.
This has actually happened to me, As Scott not as Mullet Boss. Fat tip sharpie also makes for "nice" edits.
hilarious as usual Scott!
Hello. Mullet boss's abuse of Scott seems a little half-hearted today....
also I don't think you do requests but my friend's grandfather just passed away so I was wondering if you could do a BI on how to deal with loss
Anyway I love your comic and keep up the good work!
It's like a mirror of my working life!
solid
I have had this exact experience some years ago when my boss at time sent back the report I had been working on with a sheaf of notes and "corrections". I amended the report and it came back with a load more notes with instructions to remove nearly everything she had instructed me to insert...
As a pleb in the academic field I highly approve this comic. Panel 3 in particular gives me horrific flashbacks.
This is a good one. The first panel was the best in my opinion.
The third frame is just too painfully true for me, even if it is equally funny. When I was writing my thesis, drafts to/from my advisor seemed to be going back and forth endlessly. To keep things uncluttered, I was not thinking; I would shred a draft as soon as I'd put the corrections in, until some of the 'corrections' started seeming way too familiar. The shredding stopped, and I caught my advisor adding/deleting/readding his own corrections... a lot! When I told him this was happening, he flatly denied it. When I showed him several successive drafts, the endless draft rewrites ended.
printed and slid under my boss' office door
Step 1: Don't be Scott's boss. Step 2: Okay, now you can collaborate.
hilarious. and awesome. AT THE SAME TIME.
As the client never seems to leave, the quality of the report makes no difference, surely.
I have finally caught up. I discovered this website last week and have been reading through the archive with gusto! And Missy's blog too.
I adore you both :D
Keep up the good work! (I'll look into subscribing if I get a job I'm hoping for!)
@ JJ : depending on the situation of your loss, recently we got "Technology's Disturbing Philosophical Implications" which relates to immortality and who doesn't get it, and the earliest BI comic in the archive is "How to Avenge Your Brother's Murder". I assume this is hypothetical since Scott's brothers show up in the strip subsequently, talking about their challenging childhood. There's also "How to Express Condolences", "how to Videotape your Will", and "How to Resurrect a Dead Character". ...Oh! :-)
ilarious. and awesome. AT THE SAME TIME.
Robert Carnegie wrote: "-Yellow- ink? Omg, do you mean highlighter?"
Ink is an essential product in the manufacture of highlighters, markers, and pens. When you cease to use a highlighter to highlight text and begin writing instructions, text and sketches, calling it "yellow ink" rather than "yellow highlighter" is more descriptive. I worked with an engineer who liked to use highlighters to mark up revisions on P&ID schematics and wrote field notes with whatever he had handy (pen, pencil, marker, highlighter, grease pencil)... ever try to read scribbled yellow "highlighter" notes on canary yellow legal pads?
As someone who routinely has to write reports for his boss at work, I've gotta say you 'hit the nail right on the thumb' with this one.
OK, now I'm really angry. I spent 6 months working for that boss last year. I'd write a damn good document, he would dictate edits over the phone, I'd make them, then he'd want to see it, then he'd criticise HIS edits and blame me, dictate more edits - which were usually off-topic and/or wrong - and so on. Some documents went through over 12 cycles of edits and were 3 weeks late in being delivered. And sometimes he would demand the final copy, change the name to his name and submit it himself.
In the end I told them to stuff the job and walked ... at my wife's insistence as she could no longer handle what the job was doing to my health and confidence.
Managers like that should be killed. Slowly. And their children and siblings sterilised just in case. And their parents imprisoned for life for raising such a damaged individual.
Is there something wrong with me?
Whenever I see Collaborate I get the lyrics for Valnila Ice's Ice Ice Baby stuck in my head.
"Stop collaborate and listen."
Yes there's something wrong with me.