i don’t usually get upset about many things at work, even though lately we’ve had some stupid stuff happen because people can be selfish and manipulative. friday though, i got ticked off. for sake of simplicity, i will follow the lead of HIMYM and say what i was working on was the ninja report. i’ve been working on the ninja report for MONTHS and right before i was going to Europe, it was going to be signed off by various people and then released for the first time as official. i worked hard to make sure everything was done on time. i handed off the responsibility of the ninja report to someone else, so i haven’t been working on it since i got back from my trip. friday morning i got a call from someone (who we’ll call Norman) about the ninja report. after talking to him, i realized he had been given an old copy of the ninja report by some guy in our department (we’ll call him Earl) who doesn’t take direction well, and likes to take control of situations when he really doesn’t know much about what’s going on….AT ALL. i was able to get an updated and official copy of the ninja report sent out to Norman, so that was cool. since the official ninja report had been released sometime when i was gone, i wondered when the old report was sent out, because there’s no reason for old information to be sent out when there is an official version, unless you’re a person who thinks he knows everything. i was able to find out from Norman that Earl sent out the old version on April 14, at least three weeks since i left for Europe, and well after the official ninja report had been released. i talked with my supervisor, and she gave me some good advice. i was mad mostly because Earl sent out something i had worked very hard to complete without telling me, and then the version he sent out was not the final version, and had mistakes that i later corrected on the final version. i ended up emailing the managers to let them know i had talked to Norman, and what Earl had done. i am not really hoping for any punishment to be given out or anything, just that people’s work is not sent out without their knowledge again, but if it is, that it is not old information. i’m not worried about getting more credit than i deserve or anything, but my name IS on the ninja report, so if you’re going to send it to someone, don’t send an old version. i’d also like a heads up when it gets sent out, so when people like Norman call me, i have a good idea of how to help them.

other than that though, work was pretty awesome on Friday. i was able to talk with a guy whose project i’ve been working on to get another contact about “golf clubs”, because the original guy i’ve been trying to talk to hasn’t been returning my calls or emails. i got another contact to call tomorrow about golf clubs, so i should be able to finish what i need to do. also, i should be getting my “free throw” certification because i talked to the guy in charge of the projects and had a lot of my questions answered. before friday, i was pretty nervous about both of these things because i had not gotten many answers from other people, but i went directly to the sources, and got things done.

even so, i was telling Jacob yesterday, that it used to be that i hated NOLA but liked my job. now i love NOLA but kind of hate my job. the paradigm shift has been a little hard to deal with. i guess i just never saw it coming.