Lo, I am vindicated.

[camwyn]

SCENE: The lunchroom
TIME: Around 1:30
DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Me, the head of Educational Services, and a steak quesadilla from Taco Bell

ME: mmm. Quesadilla.
HEAD: J.?
ME: *tensing involuntarily* What?
HEAD: Just wanted to tell you something...
ME: . . .
HEAD: [volunteer] is never allowed to touch the computer again.
ME: . . !!!
HEAD: I don't know what he's doing but between his little computer and working on the file at home, this file we've had for two years is totally messed up... I'm not even sure if we have the real version or if he has it at home...
ME: He thinks he knows what he's doing, but he doesn't.
HEAD: Yes, exactly. And you know what's worse?
ME: What?
QUESADILLA: [gets cold]
HEAD: He's a doctor. Heck, I think he was even a surgeon. You'd think he'd know better.
ME: Yeah, seriously. [inside] YESSSS!

[volunteer], in this case, is someone I have ranted about in this LJ before. He's the one who knows Macs well but knows jack-all about PC's - but believes that he knows enough about PC's to manage, which he doesn't. He won't ever shut up, even if he has to natter on about how he bought a new stack of paper for his home printer. And he never seems to understand that he's not supposed to repeat the same mistakes over and over and expect me to be happy about it.

I'm just glad that the department head came to the same conclusions I did, because [volunteer] makes all my deltoids contract at once in a concerted effort to avoid killing him.

Comments

[wordslinger.livejournal.com]

Alas, there are indeed some MDs who believe they know everything. This is annoying to anthropology students, who know THEY are the ones who know everything.

[camwyn]

Heh. Former anthro student, me. Unfortunately I'm all too aware of what I don't know - then again, since I'm not a student any more, I no longer qualify to know everything.