And my father thinks I am a questioner

New co-worker is currently annoying the crap out of me. They are definitely a questioner in the Four Tendencies framework, and in a lot of ways that is definitely good. One of our expressed goals this year is to rework all the reports to be more automatic and streamlined. I am glad that they are thinking about ways to accomplish that.

However, you may have noticed that the streamlining is our stated goal for this YEAR. Not this month, this week, and especially not today. At least not on a whole scale level. Today, our goal was to add approximately 15 columns to three of our reports (really the same report, but each of the three months we are currently looking at are in separate documents) so that they would be present for the big run tomorrow. Our supervisor had worked out all the formulas and what he wanted in each of the columns, so it was really just a copy and paste into the new documents, plus adding three sheets for background calculations. Everything else was already present.

New co-worker was give this task since they do not currently have access to the sql database needed to run (the majority) of the other 17 tasks that represent a Wednesday in report-land. Co-worker started their task at approximately 8:30 after we had a conversation about where each of the pieces of data that they needed lived. When I left at 3:00 there was still not one additional column in any of the reports! They had spent all of that time coming up with a whole new way to download the data. And it definitely wasn’t just that they were confused. I made that mistake a couple of time through the day and tried to reiterate where each of the pieces of data could be found. Each time they brushed me off with an “Oh I know, I just want to really understand where all of this is coming from.” Anytime I mentioned the time constraint they assured me that everything would be there.

The fact of the matter is that the data probably will be there tomorrow, but I am not sure how much of this cutting close to the deadline stress I am going to be able to deal with.