So today is the submission deadline for the credit crisis article I've been working on. I make edits, send to Boss' secretary, who sends it back. Boss asks me to make the final edits. I do so on paper, with blue ink. I give to Boss I resume work. I then go to the bathroom. I'm washing my hands on my way out of the bathroom when I hear my name paged on the PA system. I know this isn't good.

I go back to my office. Of course it is Boss who is angry that I didn't answer my phone. He left a message saying to call him. I call him back.

Boss answers. Boss is unhappy. He makes this known. Apparently the version I edited did not have "Colleen," his secretary's, edits. I try explaining that it is indeed the same document and the most recent version available to me. Boss says this makes no sense. Apparently, Boss does not like computers. Boss is uninterested in why problem occurred but wants it fixed. Now. Boss says to email a word document to Colleen rather than attaching a document from the main file site. I try to explain that in order to email the word document, I would have to download it from the mail file site, which would be the same document in the end. Boss says this also makes no sense, and that I should just send a word document. I stop trying to explain and say "Right away." This ends the conversation.

I call "Colleen". She also does not understand what Boss wants. I explain to her that Boss wants a word document. Colleen acknowledges that this does nothing to salvage the edits made to the previous version, but does not question the chosen solution. Colleen re-does all the edits.

Colleen sends me a confirmation of the final article submission. It is slated to appear in an upcoming edition of Bob's Litigation Journal (or Something), authored by "By Franklin W. Cleveland III, Partner." In a footnote, I am acknowledged for my contribution to the article. I feel a sense of acheivement. Woot.