I think my boss is happy I didn't hurt anyone this week!

The other day on the train home, the driver made a really great announcement. I like communicative train drivers, because they seem to be sharing the love, or wishing they could hurt people. This guy wanted the people who had forced the doors open to suffer humiliation. Or severe frownings at least. He did seem to get involved in the reasons why they should not take that absolutely inconsiderate action. One of those reasons was then getting dragged along the platform.

AMP - I explained to this guy today that, nothing personal, I have trouble expressing how much I hate AMP. We spent a decent amount of time while he started my formal complaint. I am very concerned that a Financial Institution can lose documents the way they do. They are now claiming they only received one of my rollover forms. Which is stupid because the other one in that same envelope was processed. And it was registered mail that someone there had to sign to say they received it all okay.

Lacking ways to express my anger to this guy (nice guy), I hunted down one of the people on the panel that deals with AMP. Because we're a decent size client, we get a special panel who meet with AMP regularly to see how things are going.

Nobody got hurt - is actually work related. There was an awesome email bitch fight that was good enough for my manager to jump in with "THIS HAS GOT TO STOP". Unprofessional things were being said at me. Meeting the next day I actually found kind of funny. Met this new chick, who I like in the sense that she is puppy dog keen and very friendly. She revealed that she'd spent a day working out how something worked. I tried to explain that she was not reading a report right. She persisted and bitch fight lady backed her. So the meeting ended with me saying how awesome and exciting it is that someone is doing this great work, and I looked forward to the end success.

Karma punished me for that, the same day. Back at the office I found out she had told people not to do what I need done - because of all these insights. Chick who stopped doing things stood right by puppy chick, pissing me off in the process. So I had to call puppy chick and spend near an hour explaining again why she was wrong. She has agreed to my explicit instruction to never tell people to not do what we need done. Ever.

She may have been influenced but this bit at the meeting. After we had moved on from disagreement, we were talking error rates. I explained I am aiming for zero, and this chick (left, we're in touch though) who did the job years ago had a zero error rate. Senior types pointed out that things were much simpler then (they were). And I said "I don't care". I hindsight I see that the resulting silence was because I said the words with the kind of force that could almost be interpreted as threatening.