Thank you, Dilbert, for you stupidity protective desktop background, but I am afraid even you cannot help me now.
So I give a project to an employee. It’s a fairly large project and I have immediate work to be done so I only give the first part and mention several times that when this part is done to let me know and we will go over the letters for the second part.
At the end of the day I come across another job for said employee to work on, as projects are desperately needed at the moment because the boss is out of the office on vacation… did I forget to mention that?... So I label it with a large bright yellow post-it that says “Do after ……… letters” which was the next part of the project that she was supposed to let me know when she was ready for it.
So about 3/4 of the way through the next day, when she had not gotten the letters (part two) of the project from me I decided to give the other letter that she was supposed to do afterward to another employee who is low on work. When I went to get it, I saw it was sitting on the employees letter stand, and as she informed me she was almost done with it I stared dumbfounded at the large bright yellow post-it still stuck to the middle of said document. I could not even look at her as I asked “What about the other project”. I kid you not--she actually said “Well, you didn’t give me the letters.” So I explained to her again that I told her to come get the letters when she was ready for them. I then explained that the large bright yellow note stuck to the letter telling her to do AFTER the other project should have been enough to let her know she needed to do that letter AFTER the other project.
Yay! Work!
Anybody looking for a housekeeper? I could do that.
