Oh the loveliness of it. After a week of complaining that I'm working for nothing at the moment, not even for a thanks, I today got a document back from a colleague I am working with. It was red with changes and comments (a word document in correction mode). Now, having worked for ten years, and having "colored" many documents myself for others, I do not find making changes or comments bad. I often believe that content-related changes or simple typo-corrections make work better. One of my favorite bosses of all times, from whom I learned immense amounts, used to be such a "changer". Everyone can learn.
The funny thing about this document I received was that it was filled with comments with "thanks". But the "thanks" were preceded by large, time-consuming instructions to change things. Just to note here that the project I'm working on requires me to provide content-related expertise. But as everyone tries to shove off tedious admin-related work, or nitty-gritty "change these commas"-work to others, people try to shove as much of this onto me.
I'm too nice. I often do these tasks. It's wrong, and it's stupid (of me).
But I felt like I needed to correct a previous post. Thanks is not enough after all. Thanks, please translate this post into seventeen languages, change all "e's" in words with an "i" into "u's", and separate all consonants and vowels into separate documents - thanks.
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