Anarchist Prime is up to his usual tricks again - this time, it's simply a case of sending documents around for review, not bothering to pay any attention to the results, and then getting me to wander around collecting signatures for the final draft. Naturally enough, although most people were content to whack their signatures on the things without paying much attention to the content (a dodgy practice that I, as Document Control Officer deplore, even though it does make life much simpler some times), my friend Majicke quickly flipped through them.
Crime #1: All the clip art he's put through all this policy-level document. He thinks they're pretty. I think it's juvenile. But, being the person he is, he simply ignores everything he doesn't particularly want to hear. Result? I accused him of being juvenile, to his face, and got away with it. Which does nothing at all for my opinion of the man.
Crime #2: The spelling mistakes. I mean, really!
Majicke collared Mistress Mouth on the subject. Her advice, right now, is to simply let it go for this revision, because we need to get these documents in place far too badly not to allow mistakes through, and we'll sort it out in the next revision. Of course, she put it in rather more words than that. I put it even more bluntly to her. We'll sign them off to keep him happy, and change them behind his back later on. With any luck, if we get him well away from the documentation, we'll be rid of him before he causes too much damage. God help us.
Majicke, of course, can't bring herself to do that and is headed for another fight with him. Best of luck to her, too!
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I accused him of being juvenile, to his face, and got away with it.
Really? Awesome. I think he may have picked up on the fact we don't like him..
No - he just ignored it because it was something he didn't particularly want to hear. /rolls eyes/
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