sometimes it's hard being right

so i spent my day at work finding other peoples' mistakes and making them fix it. unfortunately for one person, the issue encompassed months of work in which the mistake in question was propagated for over 6 months.

since i would not put my signature on the documents in question until the issue was fixed, i asked the guilty party to spend the afternoon fixing each mistake, crossing each one out, initialing, and dating.

at first i thought: is this my fault? did i not train properly?

no, silly.

the answer is that the analyst was a lazy mother fucker and didn't think i would catch it. this was also confirmed by the sheepish grin and apology which accompanied the returned documents, with a mumble of "i guess i wasn't paying close attention..."

it hurts to get burned!