Actual email response from boss—-worth the read I promise.
First email received from boss: Today I received invoices for payment from you for [company name removed] they are dated for the following months - 12/08, 2/09 and 4/09. My concerns are that the dates on the invoices are from quite some time ago and I not sure why. As I understand it you are reasonable for collecting the tickets from the drivers, documenting them in the database and holding onto the tickets and submit them with the invoices when they come in. If an invoice does not come in with a timely fashion you are to contact the company to expedite the receipt of the invoice. I replied: We have had an ongoing problem with [company name removed], which you were quite aware of. We were holding the invoices waiting for green purchase orders to show up. We called [company contact] from [company name] several times and asked her to send over the greens, and she didn’t answer or return our calls. [Co-worker’s name] sent her a copy of a green purchase order approx 2 or 3 months back. She never sent it back. I finally got ahold of her a couple of weeks ago on 6/3/09 and asked her to send back the green. I resent the email that [Co-worker] originally sent, and she printed them out and said she was sending them back. After a week when we didn’t receive them I called her back again and she said she was sending them out. We received them yesterday. You were completely updated about this by me on June 3, 2009. Final response from boss: If I was updated of any ongoing problems and had forgotten it I apologies I reviewed my emails but see an email from you not only regarding the issue but the dates I questioned I it I will recheck my emails and confirm with [co-worker’s name removed]. Thank You Is it just me or did that last email make no sense? I understand grammar and spelling mistakes, but come on. This is the “high and mighty” administrative assistant that makes my life hell. Wait till I respond tomorrow. Bitch.
