Comments | r_a_l_i_g_h: That’s NOT IN MY JOB DESCRIPTION!

r_a_l_i_g_h

That’s NOT IN MY JOB DESCRIPTION!

Mar 02, 2009 06:57

I don’t think my mom understands what it is I do.

( I know my entries are almost universally 'tl;dr' - so I'm going to cut to be nice. Click if you wanna read me ramble about my family, my life, and having family who appreciate your skills but clearly don't understand what you've actually been doing with your life )

dear diary..., my life, *facepalm*, life, stories, my family

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r_a_l_i_g_h March 2 2009, 21:05:05 UTC

Heh, yeah.

...To be fair, at that point, we'd been working on this thing off-and-on for the last 36 hours or so.

When O-Y Sis sent the note to Momma I think she just was a little punchy from trying to get it all done correctly and was like "Oh - and we need to do this, too ... can you take care of that?" not really thinking.

I pointed out exactly what you said, Sis wrote up an answer, and I polished it off, just like we'd been doing.

...Voila!

It just amused/nonplussed me that I had to point out the oddity of the request at all.

daynr March 2 2009, 15:23:45 UTC

yeah, I would have sent that back with a "sure, as soon as she writes something for me to edit."

r_a_l_i_g_h March 2 2009, 21:05:48 UTC

Pretty much what I did. And they were like, "...Oh. ...right."

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r_a_l_i_g_h March 2 2009, 21:08:08 UTC

Nah!

(After all, we'd been working off-and-on on the whole thing for most of the last 36 hours, and, I really *do* enjoy helping people out like this.)

It just amused/befuddled me that I had to point out that one canNOT edit without content TO edit.

miniglik March 2 2009, 18:31:47 UTC

Wow, that's a lot to ask. So, what did you do?

(My BIL just sent me and my husband a math thing to do for him, and I don't know what he wants from us: do it? Give hints? Show him where to find answers?)

r_a_l_i_g_h March 2 2009, 21:11:06 UTC

Pretty much what daynr said above, pointed out that I was more than happy to edit ... if I was actually given something *to* edit.

Just funny/headscratching to me that I had to point that out.

(Ah! Yes, you get where I'm coming from with the family/friends befuddling "Here! Can you help me? Fix this!" scenario!)

ankai March 2 2009, 23:50:49 UTC

Maybe you could have sent back the word with proper capitalization and fewer question marks.

r_a_l_i_g_h March 15 2009, 22:02:02 UTC

Heh. I like the way you think.