i get yelled at via email
so i go to a meeting this afternoon and when i get back to my desk i have this email from a colleague at another office who happens to supply many of our sampling instruments.
basically, he was yelling at me for some damage to an instrument. of course i feel bad but let me tell you what happened and you can make the decision for yourself.
Friday, late morning.
My job, to get depth to water from 9 wells.
Usual time spent, 2 hours (not including driving time because the site is out in BFE).
I get to the site and pull the water level indicator (wli) from my car and get everything ready to drop that baby 300 ft down the first well. What do you know, the tape does not roll down the well very easily. Being a scientist and inevitable problem solver, I check out the wli to see what the hold up is.
turns out the front cover is coming off the instrument and the only way for me to fix it is to unroll all 500 ft of tape, put the cover back on, and re-roll the tape. so, that's what i do. remember, we're talking about 500 ft of material here. i was left with a huge pile of tangled tape to re-roll.
an analogy- picture what happens to your christmas lights or an extension cord or your garden hose... you get the gist.
as i begin to re-roll and untangle the boat-load of tape, i realize that somehow the 390 ft tape is tangled with the 87 ft tape. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? needless to say, i spent 2 (that's right, two) hours untangling and re-rolling the tape. by the time i was done, I was so upset and in need of a beer that i almost couldn't see straight.
i finished tagging my wells (with an AF mind you- boy that was a poor joke) and came back to work. I sent the wli back to it's warehouse and sent the gentleman an email about the incessant beeping the wli was making. i suggested that maybe it was the batteries.
today after many emails about batteries and front covers almost off, etc. i get the yelling email.
was i in the wrong, partially. i should have told him about the front cover being off from the get go but i got the tape wound back up and mostly minus kinks. he seems to think there are too many kinks and the tape in unfixable and so the wli may be ruined. i guess it's his job to know these kinds of things. but it's also his job to send me stuff in good working condition. the screws not being tight had nothing to do with our shipping company or that i packed the wli in my trunk. it was something from him or the previous user.
thanks, now i feel better.
basically, he was yelling at me for some damage to an instrument. of course i feel bad but let me tell you what happened and you can make the decision for yourself.
Friday, late morning.
My job, to get depth to water from 9 wells.
Usual time spent, 2 hours (not including driving time because the site is out in BFE).
I get to the site and pull the water level indicator (wli) from my car and get everything ready to drop that baby 300 ft down the first well. What do you know, the tape does not roll down the well very easily. Being a scientist and inevitable problem solver, I check out the wli to see what the hold up is.
turns out the front cover is coming off the instrument and the only way for me to fix it is to unroll all 500 ft of tape, put the cover back on, and re-roll the tape. so, that's what i do. remember, we're talking about 500 ft of material here. i was left with a huge pile of tangled tape to re-roll.
an analogy- picture what happens to your christmas lights or an extension cord or your garden hose... you get the gist.
as i begin to re-roll and untangle the boat-load of tape, i realize that somehow the 390 ft tape is tangled with the 87 ft tape. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? needless to say, i spent 2 (that's right, two) hours untangling and re-rolling the tape. by the time i was done, I was so upset and in need of a beer that i almost couldn't see straight.
i finished tagging my wells (with an AF mind you- boy that was a poor joke) and came back to work. I sent the wli back to it's warehouse and sent the gentleman an email about the incessant beeping the wli was making. i suggested that maybe it was the batteries.
today after many emails about batteries and front covers almost off, etc. i get the yelling email.
was i in the wrong, partially. i should have told him about the front cover being off from the get go but i got the tape wound back up and mostly minus kinks. he seems to think there are too many kinks and the tape in unfixable and so the wli may be ruined. i guess it's his job to know these kinds of things. but it's also his job to send me stuff in good working condition. the screws not being tight had nothing to do with our shipping company or that i packed the wli in my trunk. it was something from him or the previous user.
thanks, now i feel better.
eloquently composed by Al at 5:18 PM
2 Comments:
Damn him. GRRRRR.
i happen to like kinky tape... er... uh.. mmmmm... i mean..
NEVER MIND!
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