Professionalism - Part 1

I turned 49 last February. A co-worker of mine is turning 49 later this year. You'd think a pair of 49 year-olds could work together for a common goal in a professional manner.

Apparently, I was wrong about that.

My co-worker, whom I'll call Ms. Anne Thropic, because even if that isn't her actual name that's what she is, has a strange practice. Rather than get a printer for her computer, or hook up to the company's network laser printer, she insists on having other people print stuff out for her.

"I'm sending you an e-mail; I need you to print it out for me! Oh, and all the attachments, too!"

And what she can't e-mail, she will put on a pin drive, "for your convenience." And you'd better print it out now because she's a very busy person and her clients need to be serviced!

I noticed this weird behavior when I first started on as a temp. She had some big, big files to print out, so she pulled the old pin-drive maneuver. She ran over to a woman who was up to her neck in meeting some ISO Audit deadline requirements, and practically elbowed her in the face as she stuck the pin drive on the over-burdened co-worker's computer.

"I need a print out of these files!" She cackled in her "I'm rude and obnoxious, but aren't I cute" air-raid siren voice.

"Odd, " I thought, as distant warning bells started to chime...