Trust me! It's usually a pain in my ass big deal when someone says its no big deal!
Background:
In an ongoing effort to streamline process and budget, I now handle supply ordering where I used to manage the person doing the ordering! Our history of indulging whims and creature comforts has always been way over the top for my taste, so here's my chance to rein it in and get this train on the right track!
Last Friday:
Sent out an email about ordering supplies, received several orders from three different catalogs! Yeah, not going to happen! I chose the one vendor who could provide all the items and be the most cost effective in the process.
Today:
Order arrives, everything fine, except I had ordered letter, 3 tab, center cut file folders! Sacre Bleu!!! What did I do that for? Hmmm, you mean a file folder is not just a file folder? My bad!! And then the infamous statement...its no big deal.
Really!! Is that why you complain to the receptionist, who wrote the form for you because your too lazy to do it yourself? Is that why you then have a discussion with your boss, who by the way i checked with and indeed confirmed it was no big deal and should not be an issue? Is that why you offered to take it back yourself and exchange it for the one you really wanted, because its no big deal?
Mea Culpa:
Since I placed the order and made the decisions, I did offer to have them exchanged, to which I received another...its no big deal (with major tude, a slumped shoulder shrug, and a pouty look)!
Conclusion:
Let me just make this plain and clear...when its really no big deal, we take what we get, use what we need and generally just cope! If not having the exact thing you wanted is going to throw your whole day, sweetheart, I've got news for you...
And we're off...
