If there's one thing that annoys me more than anything else in the universe, it's Incompetant Fools (hereafter referred to as IFs).

There is one particular IF working in my department.  Both me and my manager have noticed mistakes he's made over the last couple of months, and finally this morning Manager decided to have a word with him.  But still, an hour later, I noticed he'd made a mistake AGAIN!

It's not that it's easy to make a mistake in what we do.  Basically we match purchase invoices to the orders, select the order lines that the invoices relate to, and pass them for payment.  What we are not supposed to do is pass invoices that do not match the order at all.  In that case, we are supposed to go back to the people who raised the order and ask them to change it.  Obvious, one would think.

But IF is seeming to insist on passing invoices that do not match the order.  At all.  He'll just pick a completely random item on the order, and pass it that way.  And his reasoning?  "oh well it gets it off my list".

The annoying thing about it is that what's been happening is, an invoice will come in that I will see I can't match to the order, then we'll see that the reason we can't match it is because IF has used the order line for it already.  And then we have to explain to people in the buying department, and it just makes our whole department look bad.

It's now at the point where I'm going through the invoices and if I find one with a query, not only will I pass it to Manager, I also have to tell IF to leave it alone, because I can't trust him to notice the problem himself.  Because we've even had times where Manager has phoned the buyers, asked them to change the order, they've agreed to do it, but before they get a chance, IF has passed the invoice incorrectly.

Infuriatingly, he is supposedly my 'senior', so he gets paid more than me, even though I blatantly do a better job than him. 

And bizarrely, he actually thinks he's amazing.  He keeps going on about how quick he is at passing the invoices.  Yesterday he even had the cheek to say to me "I bet you're glad I'm passing so quickly so we clear the log, and you can get on with your own work."  I very nearly replied "Well it would help more if you did it right!"

I do all the passing of invoices for one of the subsidiary companies too, but that's on a different system and I'm the only one that knows how to do it.  It came up in a meeting last month that I should show IF how to do it so he can do it if I'm off sick or something.  But several wild boar are going to have to paraglide past my window wearing garlands of 4-leaf clovers and carrying fairies on their backs before I'll do that.  I'm not having him mess up all my work.

Grrrrr...

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