Playing the game

I don't play the game very well at work. I like as little politics as possible. I don't get involved in them and I don't perpetuate them.

BUT...

After receiving a ton of emails, highlighting one person's particular ignorance and ineptitude, in caps with multiple question marks and exclamation points; I shot off a rebuttle email. I was kind of short but not really. You should have seen my first try at a reply. I kept it simple. I pasted the email below and changed the names for anonymity sake.

A simple search in the *** (circled below) tells me that she works for the ***. I would contact her directly and ask her as I have nothing to do with the ***.

I guess that email didn't go over too well with some people. I got an email back from a higher up about passing the buck. I replied:

Was my reply that wrong? I honestly didn’t think it was harsh or out of line. I didn’t feel like it was passing the buck at all. To me it was the most direct route to an answer. Besides that, *** passed the buck to me in the first place yet it was okay for *** to pass it.

I stand by what I said. Was it short? Maybe it was but stop sending me emails typed in an angry manner or you will get them back. This was on top of an issue the shitty email sender sent that ended up being her own inabililty to do her job. She made a big issue about something, when I replied that it worked for me she sent me a terse email saying it didn't only to send another email about how she was actually doing it wrong to begin with. Bitch.

I don't play the game well and I refuse to play it most times. Of course if it benefits me I'll gladly play. That's just good for corporate climbing. Not that I'm much interested in corporate climbing.

I swear work is getting worse each day. Ever since we got new management, shit has gone down hill. It's a good thing I'm skilled and have my degree. Maybe I'll start job hunting.

Fuck this.