Well the IF saga came to a bit of a head yesterday, and ended with IF sulking and refusing to talk to me.

The day before, I'd come across some invoices I couldn't pass for payment, because they just didn't match the order.  But as it was coming near to the end of the day, I made a list of them, and decided I would wait til the next day before I handed them over to my manager.

But the next morning, manager and I had to go to another office for a meeting.  In the car on the way there, I happened to mention that I'd made a note of some invoices I couldn't pass, but I wasn't entirely confident that they would still be there when we got back (ie, IF would have passed them against incorrect order lines).  Manager then asked me to check when we got back, and let him know if they were still there or not.

So when we got back, that's what I did.  And lo and behold, all but 5 of the invoices I hadn't been able to pass, had gone.  I decided to investigate, and found that they had indeed been passed against completely the wrong order lines, messing up the order.  So I went with Manager into a meeting room, and told him.  He seemed exasperated.  He just can't understand how IF can continue to cock up no matter how many times he's told not to. 

He called IF into the meeting room, and started with the words "I don't want to place any blame..."   Which, if I heard that, I would have interpreted as "I blame you Pikachu."  And, with me still in the room, he told IF about the mistakes I'd found.  He put it in a good way to be honest, and made it sound like I had just wanted to see how he passed the invoices considering I'd listed them as queries.  But I'm pretty sure IF took it that I had grassed him up, and had been checking up on him.  Which I suppose I had, but he shouldn't have kept cocking up then should he. 

Anyway I then got the silent treatment for the rest of the afternoon.  And when I got excited over my delivery of blue post-it notes (if you've ever worked for a long period of time in an office, you'll know how easy it is to get excited over something as seemingly mundane as the standard yellow post-it notes being replaced by blue ones), I heard him spitefully mutter "Pathetic."   Well he's the one twice my age who is sulking like a little girl because for once in his life he hasn't managed to con someone into thinking the sun shines from his backside, so who is really pathetic?  Manager said he would have a word with him, but I don't really care to be honest, and I certainly won't lose any sleep over it.  I've got the day off work today, and I intend to enjoy it :^)

V