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[freyakitten]

Dude, when you send us a purchase order, I don't really need a copy of every single internal purchase order that the company has generated in order to get you to this point. I don't need to know how many divisions and business units and so forth it's had to go through. I just want to know where it has to go, who's paying for it, and what purchase order number I need to quote to make your life easier.

Each of those bits of paper has a different purchase order ID. I really don't want to know the internal numbers, just the one I have to quote so that you don't ring me up and complain. Make my life a little easier so that I can return the favour. Thanks.

Also: There are small people watching Shrek2 in the next room. I cannot go and watch it with them, for I am working. Oh, the agony.

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More is less...annoying.

[placeboid.livejournal.com]

Better than getting CapEx forms with no PO...no information on the I/O required...no delivery address but with a two year old's description of the necessity of the project.

"We need a new tape drive because the server has filled up and soon it will overflow and we will all be drowned in ones and zeros..."

Re: More is less...annoying.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

That would be equivalent to the purchase order which asks for a particular type of thingy, but doesn't specify which of the hundred or so models of that thingy they want.

Or when the delivery date is today (or on occasion, severla days before the date of purchase order creation), and the company is in Queensland. Then they ring up to find out why they haven't got their purchase order yet, and seem surprised when you tell them that you can't teleport it.

Re: More is less...annoying.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Or the purchase order which requests a particular model, which happens to be a different model to the one they want. We've told them and told them which one they need to order, but it's just much easier to assume that they mean one that does x when they order one that does y (which is completely different, like frogs and concrete).

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

You are a small person. Therefore you should be watching Shrek 2 too. Owww! Stop headbutting my kneecaps....

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I am not trying to paint myself green with a texta to match the people on the screen.





Right now...

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Your self-control amazes even me.

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

The thing is, I'm pretty sure work doesn't have a texta that would match the colour, and I'm also pretty sure that textas were not brought with the backpack.