Stupid People

And they all work here . . . okay, possibly not all of them. I mean, I've read - overheardintheoffice.com and some of those comments pale in comparison to what's gone on here. Every week for the last month, we've provided our VP with a spreadsheet including data elements he feels are important to discern the health of our projects. Every week the Project Managers (PMs) and Resource Managers (RMs) go into the spreadsheet and update it. This week, we moved the location of the spreadsheet to make it more convenient for everyone. Or at least, I was told it would be more convenient for everyone.

With the noon deadline looming, one PM came to me and told me he couldn't update the spreadsheet, the error message was an actually helpful "File Not Saved". I looked at the permissions he had in that location and he "must have been missed" when someone set up the directory. Fine. I added him to the site, and he went on his merry way to Updateville. I thought, hmmm, I wonder how many other people were missed. Oh, well, just all but three. NO ONE told me that they could not go into the spreadsheet and update it. So . . . how many people contacted me regarding said problem? About 6 - out of a good 25.


However, one of said possible updaters overwrote all of the changes I'd made in the morning with their own version - wiping out the few changes people who did have permissions were able to make. When attending the meeting with our VP, there was a lot of 'uhm, I put that in yesterday, not sure why it's not up to date now.'

There are too many Stupid People here - they need to leave.

Next up: Paying for Incompetence