goddamnbloodysonuvafrellingthing

You know those fairy tales where the evil queen sets the virtuous maiden some impossibly tedious task, like collecting bushels of flax seed spread over a field, and she'll be put to death if she doesn't finish the task by sunrise, so she sits and cries until the king of the ants that she had conveniently saved earlier in the story comes along and gets his subjects to help her so that the task is finished by sunrise so that the evil queen can set her some other impossibly tedious task?

Yeah. I'm starting to feel kind of like that here at work. Several months ago BD put me in charge of doing a fairly tedious monthly task, which, while not impossible, was nonetheless kind of annoying. And it seems like every month hence he's added on some other aspect to make it even more tedious and complicated, culminating (so far) in this month's revision, which is going to make the entire thing take five times as long as it did before. Argh!

To be fair, I really shouldn't complain - after all, it's not a difficult task, just time-consuming and annoying and unfortunately rather necessary to running the company. And besides, I don't think I qualify as particularly virtuous or maidenly, and I'm pretty sure I haven't saved any anthills recently (not that ants could really help me with Excel spreadsheets). Though BD would probably look hilarious in an evil queen costume...

goddamnbloodysonuvafrellingthing

You know those fairy tales where the evil queen sets the virtuous maiden some impossibly tedious task, like collecting bushels of flax seed spread over a field, and she'll be put to death if she doesn't finish the task by sunrise, so she sits and cries until the king of the ants that she had conveniently saved earlier in the story comes along and gets his subjects to help her so that the task is finished by sunrise so that the evil queen can set her some other impossibly tedious task?

Yeah. I'm starting to feel kind of like that here at work. Several months ago BD put me in charge of doing a fairly tedious monthly task, which, while not impossible, was nonetheless kind of annoying. And it seems like every month hence he's added on some other aspect to make it even more tedious and complicated, culminating (so far) in this month's revision, which is going to make the entire thing take five times as long as it did before. Argh!

To be fair, I really shouldn't complain - after all, it's not a difficult task, just time-consuming and annoying and unfortunately rather necessary to running the company. And besides, I don't think I qualify as particularly virtuous or maidenly, and I'm pretty sure I haven't saved any anthills recently (not that ants could really help me with Excel spreadsheets). Though BD would probably look hilarious in an evil queen costume...